Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Modibbo Adama University (MAU), Yola, has lamented that Nigerian university professors are the lowest paid in the world.
The branch leader, El-Maude Gambo Jibreel, testified to this at a press briefing in Yola yesterday. He said, “Our members have been on the same salary for over 15 years; the last time our salaries were reviewed was in 2009.”
He said, “Lecturers in Nigeria are the least paid in Africa, not to talk of the global average, we are the worst paid in the world, as a professor earns less than $300 per month at the current rate of N1,489 per dollar in a month.”
He lamented that many Nigerians do not understand the strike it had been embarking on for years. He said, “ There is a need for the public to understand what the struggle of ASUU is all about and join hands with ASUU to save the educational sector in Nigeria and place Nigeria on the development path.
“The exclusive wisdom behind the 2022 eight months strike action was to make the FGN implement the Memorandum of Action (MoA) of February 7, 2019, which our Union and FGN agreed upon without any duress.
