(PHOTOS) BREAKING: SSANU, NASU, NAATS SHUT UNILAG GATE OVER WITHHELD SALARIES

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The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has been completely shut down by members of the non-academic staff unions as they begin a seven-day warning strike by protesting.

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions, and the National Association of Academic Technologists of the University of Lagos are among the unions taking part in the demonstration on Wednesday.

They staged a peaceful protest in front of the school’s gate.

The protesting members of the union blocked vehicular movement and hindered the free flow of traffic in the environment.

They could be seen singing as they displayed various placards to register their grievances with the Federal Government over their withheld salaries.

Recall that the JAC of SSANU and NASU had, for about a month, called the government’s attention to its exclusion from the payment of the withheld salaries, which it commenced payment for the Academic Staff Union of Universities in February.

Their salaries were withheld when the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari invoked a ‘No Work, No Pay policy’ against the ASUU, SSANU and NAATS, which embarked on a strike that lasted eight months, four months and five and a half months respectively, in 2022.

However, NAATS also joined and began its three-day warning strike today.

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has stormed the secretariat of the Labour Party to protest the party’s national convention planned for the end of this month.

The union also demanded the sack of the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure.