Lecturers’ salaries need to be reviewed, don advises FG
Lecturers
By Olawale Lawanson Alabi
Abeokuta, August 28, 2025 (CrestNewsOnline) Prof. Tunde Adeoye, a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Economics, University of Lagos, has urged the Federal Government to urgently review university lecturers’ salaries in order to avert another industrial strike.
Adeoye gave the advice on Thursday while speaking on the nationwide protests embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
“The Federal Government needs to be sensitive to the lecturers’ plight and engage in renegotiating the 2009 agreement, which has as its major component the improvement of the salary structure of academics.
“The ASUU members equally have families and aged parents to cater for and many of our members for instance cannot afford to pay their house rents.
“Also, many of our members who were sick have died, while some with hypertension who are supposed to be routinely buying drugs cannot afford them,” he said.
Adeoye noted that several university lecturers were working with empty stomach, while many are doing the job of four persons because the Federal Government had placed an embargo on employments in the institutions.
“There is the need for the Federal Government to increase university lecturers’ salaries to reflect the current economic realities in the country.
“The salary of a professor in a Nigerian university is about N500,000 without any deduction, and when deductions are made, a professor earns around N300,000,” he said.
Adeoye contended that the situation in some African countries like Kenya and Zimbabwe was better as their lecturers were being paid better salaries.
“Government should make concerted efforts to improve the living standards of lecturers, as well as their condition of service, to prevent what we call ‘brain drain’,” he said.
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