Academic and administrative activities were paralysed at the University of Ibadan as the Non-academic staff unions of the institution began a warning strike. The unions which include Joint Action Congress of Senior Staff of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union(NASU) are demanding full payment of salaries and arrears from January 2016 to date.
Staff of the university have been collecting their salaries piece
meal since January 2016. This resulted in traffic gridlock at the Agbowo
end of the university. Academic staff and other visitors to the
institution had to park their vehicles outside the campus before
trekking inside the school. The strike disrupted undergraduate
examinations in some faculties. The unions said they were forced to take
the latest action owing to the failure of the University administration
to yield to the demand of commencing full payment of salaries by July
ending and arrears of shortfalls from December 2015 to June 2016.
Speaking with newsmen, the Chairman of SSANU, Wale Akinremi explained
that they had resolved to proceed with industrial action without any
further warning following several unfulfilled promises. “The unions are
also demanding payment of N15, 000 and N30, 000 hazard allowances for
junior and senior staff respectively,” he said. The Bursar of the
institution, Michael Alatise had hinted that the university received
payment of shortfalls covering January to April, 2016 with directive of
the Vice Chancellor, Professor Idowu Olayinka that the money be paid.
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