Nigerian University Lecturers, ASUU Kicks As Buhari Government Withholds Union Dues Despite Paying Half-Salary

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has lamented the nonpayment of their check-off dues dedicated by the Nigerian government from the November 2022 salaries.

Check-off due is the money removed from an employee’s pay for membership in a union or an organisation that represents workers in a particular industry.

In an interview with newsmen in Abuja, Prof. Gbolahan Bolarin, the head of the ASUU chapter at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, confirmed that the government had not sent the check-off dues for November 2022.

Bolarin said, “Despite the pro-rata salaries that were paid for the month of November, those who got their pay slips observed that check-off dues and cooperative dues were deducted, but the issue now is that the account of ASUU was not credited.

“The government credited the cooperatives but refused to credit ASUU. Now, this is the question: since you claimed you paid us pro-rata, from where did you deduct the check-off and cooperative dues? And since the check-off dues were deducted, why wasn’t ASUU’s account credited? You deducted union dues from the source, but you failed to credit the union.”

-Sahara reporters