The situation almost degenerated into an open conflict at the University of Jos, where the Vice-Chancellor, Tanko Ishaya, a Professor, was spotted in a video trying to force open the locked university entrance gate personally.
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This was as the Nigerian Labour Congress , the umbrella body for workers’ unions in Nigeria, appealed to President Bola Tinubu not to allow the matter to further degenerate.The situation almost degenerated into an open conflict at the University of Jos, where the Vice-Chancellor, Tanko Ishaya, a Professor, was spotted in a video trying to personally force open the locked university entrance gate.
Many motorcycles were parked at the gates as the owners struggled to gain access to the campus through the pedestrian gates. A student of the University of Ilorin , AmazingGrace Ajao, said though the unions were on strike, there was no form of demonstration and that the ongoing examinations had continued without disruptions.
The spokesperson for the Obafemi Awolowo University, Biodun Olarewaju, said the university authority is doing all it could to ensure that the strike doesn’t disrupt activities more than necessary. “As far as I know, they are not preventing the students from having their lectures or preventing the school from carrying out any activities. The school is not locked, as everyone has access to the school premises. Another thing I have also noticed is that 90 per cent of the union members are not in school,” he said via telephone on Monday.
He added that at a time when “confidence is being restored to the public universities, the least the government could do is not engineer another strike.” Mr Buhari’s government invoked a No Work, No Pay policy against the unions that embarked on strike within the period. These unions include the Academic Staff Union of Universities whose four of eight months withheld salaries have now been paid by the new administration of Mr Tinubu.However, in October, President Bola Tinubu announced that his government would pay four months of the withheld salaries to members of ASUU.
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