Adamu Adamu, Nigeria’s Education Minister

Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan

The Nigeria’s Government today officially makes a U-turn on no work, no pay for striking academic staff of public universities’ and Inter-University centers.

The National Universities Commission, NUC,  in a memo dated Monday December 3, 2018, asked all Vice Chancellors of Nigeria’s public universities to ignore the earlier memo asking them to pay only the salaries of the working non-academic staff and not to pay the salaries of the striking academic staff.

The Memo, addressed to all the Vice Chancellors of Director Inter-University Centres and titled, Re: Application of no work-no-pay rule, which was signed by Director, Research, Innovation and Information Technology, Dr S. B. Ramon-Yusuf, states: ”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”.

As at the time of filing this report, no member of the nation’s public universities has received November salary.