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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reiterated its call on the Federal Government to implement the nine demands presented to it by the

Academic activities at the University of Port Harcourt were on Monday paralysed following a protest by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) against what it termed maltreatment of lecturers. The lecturers, led by the UNIPORT ASUU chairman, Dr. Darlington Uzoma, marched from the union secretariat in Delta through the main gate of the university to the Senate building. Uzoma said, “About 20 of our members in UNIPORT are being owed 22 months’ salaries because of the carelessness of the Federal Government through the payment system it adopted.”

The University of Jos chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Tuesday, joined the University of Lagos chapter to protest against the payment of half salaries by President Muhammadu Buhari-led government. Buhari’s administration had insisted on a “no-work, no-pay” policy against public university lecturers while they were on strike for eight months. Consequently, the lecturers were paid half of their salaries for October, the month the strike was called off.