"Lost their homes": Peter Obi calls for justice for UNIZIK staff without 5 years salary

• The Labour Party (LP) statesmanlike campaigner successful 2023, Peter Obi, said immoderate unit of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka successful Anambra authorities person not been paid their salaries for 5 years
• He explained that UNIZIK duly employed the affected workers betwixt 2019 and 2020 without salaries for 5 years
• Obi called connected the national authorities to resoluteness the contented of unpaid salaries and each outstanding arrears paid without delay

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Awka, Anambra state - The Labour Party (LP) statesmanlike campaigner successful 2023, Peter Obi, has called for justness for immoderate unit members of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka successful Anambra authorities who haven’t been paid for 5 years.

Obi said the UNIZIK unit were duly employed betwixt 2019 and 2020, yet person remained without wage for 5 years.

Peter Obi calls connected the Federal Government to enactment swiftly and decisively to resoluteness the unpaid wage of UNIZIK workers. Photo credit: UNIZK/Mr Peter Obi
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According to Obi, the unpaid workers see some teaching and non-teaching unit of UNIZK.

The erstwhile Anambra authorities politician made this known via his X grip @PeterObi on Friday, June 6, 2025.

Obi lamented that the UNIZIK workers person made respective attempts to resoluteness the contented but to nary avail and galore person mislaid their homes owed to eviction

“They informed maine that contempt aggregate petitions and appeals — some wrong Nigeria and to applicable planetary bodies — their concern has remained unchanged. What they look is not simply delayed salaries, but implicit exclusion from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), which has made the disbursement of their lawful net impossible.“Their accounts are harrowing. Some person mislaid their homes owed to eviction. Others person suffered breached families, untreated aesculapian conditions, and successful immoderate tragic cases, the decease of colleagues who could not spend basal healthcare. These are not isolated incidents but the consequences of systemic neglect and failure.”

Obi called connected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government to resoluteness this substance and instantly enroll the affected UNIZIK workers connected the IPPIS platform.

He added that each outstanding arrears indispensable beryllium paid without hold to the affected workers.

UNIZIK undergraduate falls from three-storey buildin, dies

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that a antheral pupil of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, reportedly died aft jumping from a three-story building.

The tragic incidental occurred astatine a backstage lodge adjacent Royal Kitchen Junction, Ifite-Awka, Awka South connected June 5, 2025.

The Chief Safety Officer astatine UNIZIK, Ken Chukwurah, confirmed the calamity and said an probe was underway.

Full database of courses offered by UNIZIK for 2025/2026

UNIZIK is 1 of Nigeria’s 44 national universities and was established successful 1991 erstwhile the aged Anambra State was divided into Anambra and Enugu States.

The Akwa field and the Nnewi campuses of the defunct Anambra State University of Technology (ASUTECH) were changed into Nnamdi Azikiwe University by the Anambra State government.

Nnamdi Azikiwe University offers a batch of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The assemblage besides offers part-time programmes.

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