By Onyekachukwu Agu

Enugu – Staff of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, will receive their December salary before Christmas day, www.esutmonitor.com  can authoritatively report.

Since assuming office as the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Aloysius-Michaels Okolie has made it a duty that the staff in the institution celebrated Christmas and new year festivities with their December salary.

TheVC therefore disclosed that ESUT staff will receieve their December salary on  December 23, 2025.

Professor Okolie disclosed this on Friday while hosting the Inaugural Lecturers during this year’s “Distinguished Inaugural Lecturers Party” at the ESUT Business School, Enugu.

The VC while appreciating the commitment and support of the professors and all staff of the university during the outgoing year, also announced that the management has given approval for all outstanding promotional arrears to be paid in January 2026.

“In keeping with the tradition of the administration since we came on board, the management approved this morning (Friday) the payment of staff December salaries on 23rd of December. We shall pay it.

“On the strength of that, Management will be doing one thing in January which will be payment of all the money for 2021 promotion arrears. We are going to pay it in January, all the remaining ones, we shall pay them off! We have been reducing the payment; we were paying 5 to 6 million every month till now. We had already directed the Bursary to work out the value for the remaining staff so that either we pay it before the salary or as we are paying January salary.

“I want to use this opportunity to thank you, Distinguished Professors, and the entire staff of ESUT, for their support in the outgoing year. The little we achieved wouldn’t have been possible without your support,” he said.

The VC also thanked the University Alumni Association for their support particularly for donating the sum of ₦10 million to the management during the 2025 Convocation Ceremony held on November 22.

Meanwhile the Enugu State University of Science and Technology on Friday, December 19, 2025 embarked on a two-week Christmas Break. Academic activities will resume on Monday, January 5, 2026