The Committee of Vice Chancellors (VCs) of Nigerian Universities has recommended N800K salary for professors, all in a bid to resolve the standoff between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government (FG).
The Federal Government was encouraged by the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) to raise the salaries of university professors to N800,000 from the N1.2 million that the Nimi Briggs committee had agreed upon.
Compared to the federal government’s anticipated 23% increase, this will be a 50% pay increase offer.
Membership of VCs Committee Recommending N800,000 Salary for Professors
A durable peace team made up of elders was also established by the committee to end the ongoing dispute between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
This was confirmed by Professor Michael Faborode, the team’s coordinator and the Secretary-General of the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU), on Tuesday in Abuja through “The Sustainable Peace Team Working Paper.”
The team’s objective, according to Faborode, is to prevent the ASUU strike from continuing because it has taken a tremendous toll on all parties involved as well as the country.
No vice chancellor or pro-chancellor who is currently in office was included in the final list, according to Faborode, and membership was determined based on the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities’ (CVCNU) records of service.
ASUU had started a 4-week total and comprehensive strike on February 14, 2022, to make clear to the FG their unmet demands.
The lecturers’ demands include the payment of earned academic allowances, adoption of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) as a preferred payment option rather than the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), payment of promotion arrears, and renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement, to name a few. Funding for the revitalization of public universities, amounting to N1.1 trillion.
Since April 2022, the Briggs renegotiation committee has been meeting with ASUU and other university labor unions. These unions went on strike as a result of their dispute with the government and the failure to receive the demands they made in the 2009 agreements they signed with the federal government.
