FG Increases Salaries For Junior Lecturers To 25%, Retains 35% For Professors, Others

The Federal Government, through the National Salaries, Wages and Income Commission, has confirmed payment of a newly approved percentage increase in salaries for academic and non-academic staff of all its tertiary institutions nationwide.

This is as the percentage increment for junior staff of tertiary institutions was raised from 23.5% which was reviewed last year to 25%.

Although nothing has been said about the withheld salaries of the academics and non-academics who embarked on strike in 2022, it was learnt that the Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, initially wrote the Chairman of the NSIWC, Ekpo Nta, to demand the status of the collective.

Sources disclosed that the decision of the minister to write the NSIWC might not be unconnected from visitations by some of the academic unions and intervention by some pressure groups.

When asked if polytechnic lecturers knew about the new development, the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Dr. Anderson Ezeibe, said that the union heard of the news and were looking forward to the implementation.

“Definitely, we heard of it and we are looking forward to it. There will be 25% increment for junior lecturers while chief lecturers and professors will benefit from 35% increment,” he said.