The leadership of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), on Wednesday revealed that many public universities in Nigeria have been operating in the last three months without electricity to carry out research and do major academic works.

It also threatened that a decisive action would be taken against the state governments and other employers of labour who have failed to implement the new national minimum wage of N70,000 and payment of consequential adjustment by the end of the first quarter of 2025.

President of SSANU, Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, disclosed these to journalists at its national secretariat in Abuja on the sideline of the association’s national leadership retreat organised for the union’s National Administrative Committee (NAC) members.

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Fielding questions from journalists over the alleged demand of N8 million from each Vice Chancellor of universities during the budget defence before the institution’s budget could be approved, the union leader said if the allegation turned out to be true, labour would ‘fight’ the lawmakers.