Akwa Utd Players short change

* To earn less than LMC’s Benchmark

Players of Uyo-based Nigerian professional Football League side, Akwa United have been told they may earn less than the one hundred and fifty thousand naira monthly salary benchmark established by the League Management Committee (LMC) with effect from the new season.

A club source hinted over the weekend that the club will not be able to meet the financial conditions of the LMC, but will do same next season. It has also been revealed that the highest paid player of the club will earn a hundred and twenty thousand naira, a situation that has raised huge concerns to the players and fans following the abolishment of sign-on fees by the League Management body.

The source said the club did not include the new salary structure in its budget for the season, maintaining that the club cannot accept what they cannot pay.
It was also gathered that a member of the LMC had last week called some players of the team asking how much they are being paid by the club.

ASUU STRIKE: FG directs NUC not to pay lecturers BY VICTOR UFOT

The federal government has through the National University commission NUC directed universities to stop the payment of salaries to the striking lecturers. This was confirmed by the lecturers after their meeting in Abuja recently.
Speaking after the meeting, the zonal chairman in Abuja said ‘the federal government has through the National University Commission stopped the payment of our salaries effective September this year and since then our salary we not been paid’.

He however confirmed that ASUU has resorted to other means of helping their members such as distributing food items and soft loans to its members. The move by federal government may not yield dividends as the lecturers are resolute to continue the 100 day of strike.