Activities at the University of Ibadan were paralyzed on Wednesday as three Unions in the premier university protested non-payment of earned allowances for the month of June.
As early as 7.30am, leadership of Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and National Association of Technologists (NAT) put all the four entrance gates into the university under lock and key and prevented movement into the university.
Their protest was anchored on what they called the unfulfilled promise by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Isaac Adewole to increase the top-up earned allowances paid to workers in the university.
The unions leadership were said to have met with council of the University where they agreed that the earned allowances be reviewed upward with 2-weeks briefing from the Vice Chancelor.
The protesters went from one department and unit to stop people from working, forcing them to join the protest.
The National Treasurer of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr Ademola Aremu however, told our correspondent that ASUU was not involved in the protest, attributing the protest to misunderstanding and information gap.
Aremu said he gathered that while the university wage bill stood at N904 million monthly, the management said it received N932 million but used the excess in paying promotion arrears of staff.
The union leader said he was also aware that the management had started making frantic efforts to raise more funds and engage unions in dialogue, saying the current crisis was caused by information gap.
As at the time of filing this report, many people were still stranded at the gates of the university while traffic gridlock became the order of the day.
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