Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Tuesday, joined a one- day protest over the non-implementation of the renegotiated 2009 agreement reached with the Federal government.
The protesters marched to the office of the Vice Chancellor with placards as they sang solidarity songs.
They called on the Federal government to implement the renegotiated 2009 agreement reached with the union.
“In this country, we are the only group of people who have been subjected to that kind of treatment and we are saying we can’t take it anymore.
“We want to tell Nigerians that we have been in the same salary7 for sixteen years, it has never happened anywhere in the world, it is only Nigeria that lecturers and academics are treated with so much disdain.
“If you go around the world, countries are investing in their education, it is only in Nigeria we allocate paltry sums to education. But we are saying that will not let education die in Nigeria and so the federal government must rise up to its responsibilities.”
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academics, Professor Victor Igbineweka and the Registrar, Ademola Bobola, received the protesters.
Bobola said they would send the ASUU demands to the Federal government.