The\u00a0Academic Staff Union of Universities\u00a0(ASUU) has declared 10 September as Victimised Lecturers\u2019 Day to solidarise with its persecuted members in\u00a0Nigerian\u00a0public universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The National President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known on Wednesday 21 at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, during a press conference on the outcome of the union\u2019s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NEC meeting was held between 17 and 18 August at the University of Ibadan (UI), Oyo State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Prof. Osodeke, several lecturers in different Nigerian universities are \u201cbeing victimised through such avenues as illegal termination of appointments, withholding of salaries, and denial of promotion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n He listed the Kogi State University (KSU), Anyingba, the Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Abakaliki, the Lagos State Universities (LASU), Ojoo, the Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), Igbariam, and others as institutions where lecturers are being victimised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: PremiumTimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0Academic Staff Union of Universities\u00a0(ASUU) has declared 10 September as Victimised Lecturers\u2019 Day to solidarise with its persecuted members in\u00a0Nigerian\u00a0public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[99,55,98,100,64],"class_list":["post-23593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-asuu","tag-education","tag-lecturer","tag-september-10","tag-student"],"yoast_head":"\n