The American University Of Nigeria owned and founded by the Former Presidential aspirant of the PDP Atiku Abubakar yesterday sacked 406 of its working staffs, this coming just a few days after his media outfit had sacked 46 of its staffs. 
On the 1st of May, Workers’ Day, Atiku Abubakar’s media house Gotel Communication, fired 46 of its staffs.
Yesterday, May 4th 2020, some 406 staffs of the American University Of Nigerian, AUN, were sacked, there was already suspicion that staffs of AUN were next and their worst fears became a reality yesterday after receiving letters of their employment termination. It is reported that those staffs laid off were not given prior notification before been asked to leave their jobs.
“They said they couldn’t generate revenue. Money issues,” some affected staffs reported that they were asked to leave their jobs because the school wasn’t making enough revenue to sustain its entire workforce.
The source said the sack letter came from the board of directors of the institution after holding several meetings. The letter was signed by the President of AUN, Dawn Dekle. When asked if the lockdown might have affected revenue generation, thereby leading to the sack, the source explained that though students were sent home, the lockdown did not slow down their academics.
“They finished their semester online, they wrote their exam online, they were invigilated using Skype. They are now in their long vacation to resume in August as usual.”
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