The Federal Government has started paying professors’ withheld salaries through the Academic Staff Union of Universitie, Platinum Times reports.
Multiple academic sources confirmed the event to our correspondent in Abuja on Monday.
Prof. Gbolahan Bolarin, chairperson of ASUU at the Federal University of Technology in Minna, acknowledged the situation on the record, saying, “Yes, it is true.” Payment has begun to flow in.”
In October 2023, President Bola Tinubu Tinubu approved the release of four of the eight months’ ASUU-withheld worker salaries.
The paychecks were withheld when the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari implemented a ‘No Work, No Pay policy’ against some university-based unions that went on strike for eight months in 2022.