ASUU Has Announced the Passing of 84 Individuals

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced the passings of 84 of its individuals among May and August 2024, crediting these misfortunes to monetary difficulty and neglected pay rates.

The Scholastic Staff Association of Colleges (ASUU) has announced the passings of 84 of its individuals among May and August 2024, crediting these misfortunes to monetary difficulty and neglected pay rates.

ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made this disclosure during one appearance on Stations TV's socio-political program with Laolu Akande.

"In the beyond 90 days, from May to August 2024, Nigerian colleges lost 84 scholastics to death due to what our kin are going through," Osodeke expressed.

He featured the desperate circumstance looked by college staff, taking note of that the public authority keeps on keeping pay rates, executing approaches, for example, fuel and power cost climbs in the midst of continuous monetary battles.

Osodeke scrutinized the National Government's "no-work, no-pay" strategy, which influences pay rates during strikes, expressing, "Regardless of this emergency, you are holding someone's three-and-a-half or more compensations on the no-work, no-pay. Individuals are attempting to make due, and everything is gone at this point."

He called for expanded financing for college training, accentuating that to guarantee the area's ideal working, teachers should be sufficiently redressed.

That's what osodeke shared, following 15 years as a teacher, he procures just N420,000 each month, clarifying that Nigerian instructors can't contend worldwide without better monetary help.

On September 25, 2024, ASUU gave a 14-day final proposal to the National Government, requesting the goal of a few waiting issues, including the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Understanding and the arrival of kept pay rates because of the 2022 modern activity.