According to the statements made by the federal administration, lecturers at public universities did not get half of their salaries for the month of October and were only paid for the days of the month in which they did not participate in a strike.

The accusation that the government paid members of the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria (ASUU) half pay in October was refuted by the government.

This information was provided by Olajide Oshundun, who serves as the Head of Press and Public Relations for the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. Oshundun signed a statement containing these remarks on Saturday in Abuja.

Mr. Oshundun stated that the ministry was responding to claims that claimed ASUU members were given preferential treatment and were paid only half of their salaries.

He claimed that both of the reports contained factual information that was severely erroneous, deceptive, and blatantly distorted.

It was brought to his attention that members of ASUU had been paid their October salaries on a pro-rata basis, contrary to what was widely reported in the media.

According to him, the pro-rata method was utilized because it is impossible to pay people for work that has not been completed.

In addition to this, he stated that the Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, had never given the instruction to the Accountant General of the Federation to pay the university lecturers half of their salaries.

After the ruling of the Court of Appeal, which upheld the order of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), which asked ASUU to go back to work, the leadership of the union wrote to the minister to inform him that they have suspended the strike. This came after the Court of Appeal upheld the order of the NICN, which asked ASUU to go back to work.

"In a same spirit, the Federal Ministry of Education wrote to Ngige informing him that they had begun work, and our labour inspectors in several states confirmed that they have done so as well.

Therefore, the minister issued a letter to the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and Planning, directing that their salaries be reinstated as soon as possible.

He said that their compensation was proportional to the amount of days they put in throughout the month of October.

He went on to say that the pro-rata was determined by calculating backwards from the day that they halted their strike action since "you cannot compensate them for work not done." Everyone's options are extremely limited."

Mr. Oshundun also refuted a statement made by the Chairperson of ASUU's Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS) branch, Muhammad Al-Mustapha, who claimed that the Minister of Labour and Employment was biased in the payment of salaries to selected professional members of the union. Mr. Oshundun's statement was that the Minister of Labour and Employment was biased in the payment of salaries to selected professional members of the union.

"Those undoubtedly being alluded to by the UDUS ASUU chairperson are members of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association (MDCAN) who abstained from the eight-month strike that was carried out by ASUU.

"This is because they abhorred the unending strikes by the union and its catastrophic impacts on medical education in Nigeria and the creation of additional medical doctors," the author writes. "The reason for this is because they abhorred the endless strikes by the union."

It is a flagrant misrepresentation of the facts to accuse the Minister of Labor and Employment of making unfair payments in the form of salary to selected members of ASUU's professional staff.

Oshundun claimed that this was because of a letter that was sent to the Minister of Finance mandating the exemption of the specified workers from the implementation of the "No Work, No Pay" rule. He added that the reason for this was due to the fact that the letter was written.
In order to set the record right, he claims that the medical lecturers who are being referred to by the Chairperson of the ASUU UDUS branch did not participate in the eight-month strike that was carried out by ASUU.
In addition to this, he mentioned that the Medical and Dental Consultants Association (MDCAN) had issued a statement on November 4 confirming this fact.

In the statement, the association explained why it decided not to participate in the strike: "Realizing the emergency situation in the sub-region, compounded by increasing public health dangers, we abstained from participating."

"The medical and dental lecturers of UDUS chose to continue the academic activities throughout the strike by ASUU in order to prevent a complete breakdown of our healthcare system."

As a consequence of this, the ministry has refuted the allegation that members of ASUU were given preferential treatment in the payment of their salaries, and it has urged the media to double check their facts so that they do not provide the public with incorrect information.

Nevertheless, Emmanuel Osodeke, the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), stated in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that members of the union were taken aback when they received their half-salary payment.

Mr. Osodeke believes that we are incapable of comprehending what is taking place. How do you pay workers who have recently returned to work after being on strike for an extended period of time half of their regular salary?

Mr. Osodeke remarked, "Well, what we need to do is to settle it out with the Minister of Labour and Employment," and this was his recommendation.