Graduate assistant lecturers in the Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Amassomma, are being owed 15 months salaries. It was also learnt that some professors who had been on sabbatical at the university had also not been paid their allowances for more than a year. The professors were formally engaged “to assist the university in teaching and research.” It was further learnt that the affected graduate assistant lecturers were duly employed by the authorities of the institution in October, 2013, to meet the manpower needs of the institution. The National Universities Commission had in 2012 withdrawn accreditation for five courses of study, including Law, at the university, citing lack of qualified academic staff and adequate infrastructure. The NUC also placed 22 other programmes of the school on suspension pending the time the authorities would satisfy the requirements to run such courses. Sources said all pleas to Governor Seriake Dickson by the
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