The Ekiti State Government on Wednesday shut the state university, Ado Ekiti following protest by trade unions over unpaid three months salaries by the government.
The workers, under the aegis of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non Academic Staff Union and National Association of Academic Technologists said they would not return to work until their salaries were paid.
The staff were being owed March to May salaries.
But the Academic Staff Union of Universities stayed away from the action.
It was however gathered that the union supported it.
Speaking with journalists, the ASUU Chairman in EKSU, Prof. Olufayo Olu-Olu, said the union could not take a lead role in the protest because it had yet to obtain approval from its congress.
The aggrieved workers shut the two gates to the institution and turned back students.
The SSANU Chairman, Comrade Kolawole Falade, told journalists that the unions arrived at the decision to embark on a protest at its meeting held on Tuesday.
Falade said: “The three unions – SSANU, NASU and NAAT – met under the Joint Action Committee on Tuesday and decided to embark on the protest to demand payment of our three months salaries.
“We have also not received our earned allowances from 2012 up till date.
“We also need a Governing Council of the university.
“There is also need for the State Government to increase the monthly subventions to the university from N260 million because of the College of Medicine.”
The NASU Chairman, Comrade Tope Akanmu, could not be reached on phone.
Calls placed to his line indicated it was switched off.