ASUU REJECTS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROPOSED SALARY INCREMENT

The Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU Benin zone has rejected the proposed salary increment by the Federal Government.
The zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Professor Monday Lewis Igbafen, made this known in Benin while briefing newsmen on the stand of the zone on the proposed increment.
Igbafen said that the Federal Government has again demonstrated a blatant unwillingness to quickly resolve all the outstanding issues.”
Igbafen lamented that university teachers have continued with the same salary regime of 2009, when the value of the naira to dollar was N120.
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