The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Uyo branch, Tuesday joined its counterpart across the country to protest against the federal government over the failure to complete the renegotiated 2009 agreements.
This action has led to the shutting down of UNIUYO campuses and all examinations scheduled for August 26, 2025 cancelled.
The lecturers mainly professors, associate professors and senior lecturers, who came out in their numbers in the early hours of Tuesday, were seen marching along the town campus of the university, the university annex and Ikpa road.
They displayed placards with various inscriptions such as ‘Our salaries are too poor’, ‘Pay us sustainable living salaries’, ‘Treat lecturers with some dignity’, ‘We are FG lecturers and not borrowers’, ‘Government please sign and implement our renegotiated agreement,” among others.
Addressing the protest at the university main gate, town campus, the chairperson of the branch, Prof. Opeyemi Olajide lamented that federal university lecturers in Nigeria have been on a fixed salary for over 16 years without any increment despite worsening economic realities.
He also expressed dismay over the Federal Government’s refusal to complete the renegotiated 2009 agreement with the union or renegotiate their salary since 2012 it was due.
Olajide lamented that government had refused to pay third party deductions for salaries paid almost a year ago and arrears of promotion, noting that the union would no longer allow government to treat members welfare with disdain.