Hard times: Senior varsity workers in battle for survival, scamper for palliatives

The biting economic conditions in the country have not spared both the teaching and non-teaching staff members of universities, as much as it has not spared anyone. From the rising cost of petrol with attendant inflation in transport fare to the scarcity of fuel and the skyrocketing prices of foods and commodities, university workers appear to bear a greater brunt.

A release by a former chairman of SSANU at the University of Lagos, Oriwaye Adefolalu, trended last week after he lamented how professors and doctors at the university were scampering for a loan of N35,000 offered by their cooperative society.

In the release, Adefolabu noted that the senior staff members were rushing to get the loan to buy the subsidised “Ounje Eko” foodstuffs brought to the campus.