BREAKING: UNILAG GATE CLOSED BY SSANU, NASU, AND NAATS DUE TO UNPAID PAY

Babatunji Wusu –

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has been completely shut down by members of the non-academic staff unions as they begin a seven-day warning strike by protesting.

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions, and the National Association of Academic Technologists of the University of Lagos are among the unions taking part in the demonstration on Wednesday.

They organized a nonviolent demonstration in front of the school’s entrance.

The union members who were protesting obstructed traffic and made it more difficult for vehicles to travel freely throughout the area.

They were heard chanting and holding placards expressing their complaints to the federal government over their salaries being withheld.

Recall that for approximately a month, the JAC of SSANU and NASU had been informing the government about its exclusion from the deferred salary payments, which it had started to provide for the Academic Staff Union of Universities in February.
When the former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration used the “No Work, No Pay policy” against the ASUU, SSANU, and NAATS, who went on strikes in 2022 that lasted eight months, four months, and five and a half months, respectively, their paychecks were withheld.

But today marked the start of NAATS’s three-day warning strike as well.

In the meantime, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) invaded the Labour Party office in protest of the party’s upcoming national convention at the end of this month.

The union also called for Julius Abure, the party’s national chairman, to be fired.

Abure was accused by the NLC leadership of organizing a “secret” conference without consulting important parties.

Abure has been pitted against the NLC and the House of Representatives caucus by the proposed convention.

Abure was charged by the laborers with plotting to overthrow the Labour Party.

The Nigeria Police Force has denied the protesting workers access to the party secretariat.