Breaking! ASUU Strike: FG Shifts Ground, Commits Fresh N15bn To Revitalization Fund

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Friday’s deliberation recorded modest success as the federal government (FG) agreed to pay an additional N15 billion as revitalisation fund demanded by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

According to the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, the N15bn will raise the amount paid into the revitalization fund to N35bn.

The government had earlier paid N20bn of the fund.FG and ASUU

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Speaking with reporters at the end of the seven-hour meeting with the ASUU leadership led by Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, Ngige said “The FG reiterated that her offer of N40 billion or 35 billion whichever is accepted by ASUU was for all the universities unions: ASUU had proposed that N40 billion be paid immediately for all unions.”

The minister also noted that the government has agreed to pay the lecturers through the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System, noting that they will switch to ASUU’s University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) when all work has been completed on it.

The nationwide ASUU strike started on March 23 as striking lecturers are demanding for the revitalisation allowance and earned academic allowances.

ASUU is also seeking a renegotiation of the 2009 agreement among other demands.

However, the strike action by the lecturers is still on as the likely final phase of the deliberations between the government and the ASUU leadership has been postponed to next Friday, November 27, 2020.

Details later….

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'dotun Akintomide
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'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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