Nigeria Government has made a u-turn on its previous stand of
no-work-no-pay policy for striking Academic Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU.
Federal Government’s u-turn was contained in a Memo from the National
Universities Commission, NUC, and dated Monday December 3, 2018
It said all the Vice Chancellors of the Nigeria’s public universities
should ignore the earlier Memo sent to them to pay only the salaries of
the working non-academic salaries and not to pay the salaries of the
striking academic staff.
The Memo was addressed to all the Vice Chancellors and titled, “Re: Application of no work-no-pay rule.”
It was signed by Director, Research, Innovation and Information Technology, Dr S. B. Ramon-Yusuf.
It said, ”Our letter Ref NUC/ES/138/Vol. 60/48 of 29 November, 2018
on the above subject matter and the subsequent e-mail advising Vice
Chancellors and Directors of Inter-University Centres to disregard the
earlier letter, refer please.
“For the avoidance of doubt, I am to clarify that Vice Chancellors
and Directors of Inter-University Centres should please stay action on
the implementation of the no-work-no pay rule, pending further
directives.”