Instructional Group of workers Union of Universities (ASUU), Taraba State College (TSU) bankruptcy, has faulted claims that the establishment’s teachers are the absolute best paid in Nigeria.
The union insisted that wage comparisons with different universities printed vital disparities in remuneration throughout universities national.
The chairman ASUU-TSU department, Dr Joshua Garba Mbave, in a commentary he issued in Jalingo, known as at the state executive to settle wage arrears courting again to January 2026 and entirely put in force the 2025 settlement between the government and the union.
He stated the claims circulating on social media misrepresented the monetary realities going through the state-owned college’s instructional body of workers.
Mbave cited wage figures from decided on universities, arguing that TSU teachers earn significantly not up to their opposite numbers in some establishments around the nation.
Consistent with him, a graduate assistant on CONUASS 01, Step 1, earns N237,331.33 at TSU, in comparison with N559,577.49 at Rivers State College and N503,574 at Delta State College, Abraka.
He additional mentioned {that a} professor on CONUASS 07, Step 10, earns N1,002,801.94 at TSU, in opposition to N3,355,231.10 at Rivers State College and N1,667,280 at Delta State College.
The union chairman additionally put the per month wage of a professor on CONUASS 07, Step 7, at TSU at N984,806.69, in comparison with N1,252,419.90 at Benue State College.
Mbave stated the figures contradicted the narrative that TSU instructional body of workers had been the highest-paid college staff within the nation.
He additionally alleged that the state executive had didn’t put in force the 30% Nationwide Minimal Salary adjustment and the 25% / 35% salary awards for college staff, including that no arrears have been paid for the changes.
He defined that even though the 70% Nationwide Minimal Salary adjustment used to be therefore applied, college body of workers had sacrificed the arrears bobbing up from the sooner changes to take care of business unity.
The ASUU chairman additional cited a document submitted through a state executive fact-finding workforce on 24 September 2026, in regards to the implementation of the Consolidated Instructional/Educating Allowance (CATA) and Consolidated Non-Educating Allowance (CONTTA).
He stated the document confirmed that universities within the North-East, together with Gombe State College, Sa’adu Zungur College in Bauchi State, Yobe State College and Adamawa State College, had totally applied the 2025 FGN-ASUU Settlement.
Consistent with him, different states, together with Bauchi, had applied the related salary changes and allowances with out looking ahead to different states to behave or constituting committees to make sure compliance.
Dr Mbave advised the media and the general public to put out of your mind claims portraying TSU teachers because the absolute best paid teachers in Nigeria, insisting that the college’s wage construction must be assessed in opposition to verifiable figures.
He known as on Governor Agbu Kefas’s management to completely put in force the 2025 FGN-ASUU Settlement and transparent all remarkable wage arrears from January 2026.
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