The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), Benin zone, has threatened to embark on industrial action over shortfall in university allocation.
It accused the Federal Government of stoking the embers of crisis when the university system was yet to fully recover from the damaging effects of a prolonged strike in 2013.
The union said it was an unfortunate and sad development that the federal government was contributing to the threat to peace in the Nigerian university system by not sending enough money to pay salaries.
Zonal Co-ordinator, ASUU, Benin Zone, Prof. Anthony Monye-Emina in a statement made available to journalists in Benin City, said the use of co-operative, welfare savings and union dues to make up for the shortfalls and the ridiculous handouts in whatever guise in place of salary was unacceptable.
Prof. Monye-Emina said the union should not be held liable for any crisis in the Nigerian university system.
He noted that most universities were under the burden of severe financial crisis, stressing that government was yet to proffer an explanation on when it would end.
It accused the Federal Government of stoking the embers of crisis when the university system was yet to fully recover from the damaging effects of a prolonged strike in 2013.
The union said it was an unfortunate and sad development that the federal government was contributing to the threat to peace in the Nigerian university system by not sending enough money to pay salaries.
Zonal Co-ordinator, ASUU, Benin Zone, Prof. Anthony Monye-Emina in a statement made available to journalists in Benin City, said the use of co-operative, welfare savings and union dues to make up for the shortfalls and the ridiculous handouts in whatever guise in place of salary was unacceptable.
Prof. Monye-Emina said the union should not be held liable for any crisis in the Nigerian university system.
He noted that most universities were under the burden of severe financial crisis, stressing that government was yet to proffer an explanation on when it would end.