The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has directed its members nationwide to mobilize for a warning strike commencing next Monday, March 18th.
The strike is in protest against the federal government’s refusal to pay withheld salaries to SSANU members.
In a communique issued after its 47th National Executive Council meeting in Akure, SSANU accused “saboteurs” in President Bola Tinubu’s government of undermining the President’s efforts towards sustaining industrial peace in universities.
SSANU claimed Tinubu had directed all university unions be paid four months of withheld salaries arising from the nationwide strike action embarked upon by all unions during former President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure but only the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, received payment.
“We strongly oppose this discriminatory practice, which we view as the government’s open invitation to industrial crises,” said SSANU National President Mohammed Haruna Ibrahim in the communique.
Additionally, SSANU is demanding the implementation of an approved 25% and 35% salary increase announced in 2023 but not yet effected, including payment of arrears.
They also want the renegotiation of a new national minimum wage expedited, as hyperinflation has eroded the current minimum wage’s value.
