It has been learnt that professors in the federal universities will earn an N2 million monthly salary if the Federal Government accepts the recommendations of its committee on the 2009 agreements with university-based unions.
The committee also recommended varied yearly allowances for professors including postgraduate supervision, field trip, responsibility and hazard, examination/timekeeping, and teaching practice/industrial supervision.
Others are honoraria for post-graduate thesis (oral exam), external modulation programs for undergraduate/post-graduate students, external assessment of readers, and postgraduate study grants.
The details are contained in a draft proposal of the renegotiated 2009 agreement submitted to the Presidential Committee on Salaries and Wages by Prof Nimi Briggs, chairman of the Renegotiation Committee of the 2009 pacts.
When asked to confirm the recommendations, ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke said: “Quoting figures in a document that has not been signed is against the tenets of the collective bargaining agreement.
“Anybody who gave out those figures is breaching all the rules about collective bargaining. “Until the draft agreement is signed, we cannot release the figures.
It was however learned that the Briggs Committee has been mandated to go back to the drawing board to produce a “reasonable, practicable wage increase, which will reflect the relativity of every worker in the educational sector – academic and non-academic.”
A ministry source had accused the committee of proposing an impracticable increase in the university wage structure.
