The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, stated on Tuesday, September 06, 2022 that the government could only afford a 23.5 percent wage increase for lecturers, while professors will receive a 35% raise.
The minister further stated that President Muhammadu Buhari, has warned against signing commitments that the government will be unable to fulfil.
Adamu announced this during a meeting with vice-chancellors and other university system stakeholders.
“The Federal Government can only afford a 23.5% salary increase for all categories of employees at Federal Universities, except for the professorial cadre, which will receive a 35% raise,” he said.
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“Ad hoc payments for academic and non-academic employees shall be paid as and when due by the Governing Councils of Universities to which such services are performed and to the staff who execute them.”
“That a sum of 150 billion Naira shall be provided for in the 2023 Budget as
funds for the revitalization of Federal Universities, to be disbursed to the
Institutions in the First Quarter of the year, and that a sum of 50 billion Naira shall be provided for in the 2023 Budget for the payment of outstanding areas of earned academic allowances, to be paid
in the First Quarter of the year”.
At the meeting’s conclusion, the pro-chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria, Professor Peter Okebukola, stated that the government was prepared to go to whatever length to guarantee that university instructors returned to school.
