Union stage protest over school funding [Photos]

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January 19, 2016 6:04 PM

SSANU members stage their protest at the Senate building in the University of Lagos

SSANU protest around senate building in University of Lagos

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, on Tuesday, January 19, reportedly staged a protest over moves by the Federal Govt to exit salaries of university staff primary schools from the payroll of the nation’s tertiary institutions.

The association have previously protested the sack of over 2000 of their members and the group has been on strike since December 24, 2015.

The recent ongoing protest is due to the fact that the Federal Government, through the National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), said recently that it would no longer allocate monies from the Federation Account to the various universities for salaries of their staff schools’ teachers.

READ: Association protest sack of school teachers

Sack letters were also reportedly issued to primary school teachers. The union has given an ultimatum to the Government to reverse these sack letters by the end of the month or bear with an Indefinite Strike by all teachers.

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