The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has expressed concern over salary shortfalls and inconsistencies in payment of third-party deductions of various universities and Inter- University Centres in the country.
SSANU President, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim, made the disclosure in a communique issued at the 50th Regular National Executive Council meeting of the union on Sunday in Abuja.
Ibrahim said that the inconsistencies of the payment have become worrisome.
According to him, the union recorded cases of salary shortfalls and inconsistencies in the payment of third-party deductions of various universities and inter-university centres.
Further enquiries revealed that, on migration to the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) platform, some universities now shortchange their staff by paying incomplete salaries.
Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim went on to say that the National Economic Council (NEC) unanimously resolved that the government should ensure that the N50 billion earlier appropriated for Earned Allowance should be recaptured in the 2025 budget, requesting that other pending allowances should also be released without further delay.
“NEC appeals to the Federal Government through the Minister of Education, Dr Olatunji Alausa, to facilitate the payment of our remaining two months salaries and the third-party deductions, urgently”- he said.
Ibrahim also condemned the alleged incessant cases of sexual abuse in the university system.
He added that SSANU would ensure close monitoring of the developments, adding that anything short of justice for the sexually harassed members of the union would be unacceptable.
Meanwhile, NEC also calls on the state governments to act accordingly as it concerns the payment of arrears of the last reviewed minimum wage and bring workers in state universities up, to be at par with their counterparts in Federal Universities, he said.
