The Academic Staff Union of Universities has warned Nigerians that if the Federal Government kept withholding their pay, a new crisis in the country’s universities would transcend break out.
It urged interested parties and well-meaning Nigerians to pressure the Federal Government into paying its members’ withheld eight-month salaries across the nation.
The University of Ilorin, ASUU Chairman, Prof. Moyosore Ajao, raised the alarm at a special congress of the local branch held at the university’s main auditorium on Monday.
The university lecturers had staged a solidarity rally within the university’s campus before returning to the auditorium, where they addressed newsmen on ‘Casualization of Intellectual Workers in Nigeria.