The committee set up by the federal
government to implement the needs
assessment report in Nigerian universities yesterday reached an agreement with
representatives of the striking members
of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) on the vexed issue of
decaying infrastructure in Nigerian
universities following the adoption of a
report by the committee’s technical
committee.

The committee, chaired by Benue State
Governor, Dr Gabriel Suswam, which rose
from a long meeting at the Benue
Governor’s Lodge Asokoro, Abuja, last
night, announced to newsmen that the
federal government had reached
agreement with ASUU to deploy N100
billion for the provision of infrastructure
on the campuses of 61 universities
covered in the needs assessment report
earlier carried out by a committee of the
federal government.

Based on the agreement, therefore, the
only matter in contention is the issue of
the earned allowances which Suswam
gave assurances that the matter, too,
would be dealt with on Monday since the
federal government had made substantial
offers to the striking lecturers.

The technical committee, chaired by Dr
Banfa, a nominee of ASUU, had proposed
in its report that the N100billion be
shared among all the 61 federal and state
universities in the country for
intervention in the areas of the
rehabilitation and construction of lecture
halls, renovation and construction of
libraries and laboratories, and
rehabilitation and construction of hostels.

Banfa said the 61 universities were
categorized into four based on the size of
student enrolment, noting that the
categories depended on the university
with 30,000 students and above, 20,000
students and above, 15,000 students and
above, and 10,000 students and above
respectively.

Each of the universities would then be
given its share of the fund to apply in the
projects already identified in the needs
assessment report for immediate
implementation.

In adopting the report, Suswam said
everything would be done to avoid
bureaucracy in the award of contracts for
the identified projects so that the
campuses would immediately witness a
new lease of life with the coming on
stream of the new projects.

The governor disclosed that President
Goodluck Jonathan had agreed to flag off
the construction of infrastructural projects under the N100billion stimulus package in a university to be selected, to symbolize the commencement of construction work in all the universities.

He said the new projects to be undertaken would be standardized such that all the Universities will enjoy similar facilities in terms of the new projects.

“I am confident that, very soon, the
students will resume. As a leader in this
country, I am worried about the strike.
Mr President is absolutely worried and
everybody is concerned that the students
should not stay at home more than
necessary,” he stressed.

The implementation committee meeting
was attended by the ministers of
Education, Labour and Productivity, and
other education funding agencies of the
federal government, including the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),
Petroleum Technology Development Fund
(PTDF), NITDA, Nigeria Communications
Commission (NCC), and Tertiary
Education Trust Fund (TETFund) among
others as well as the president of ASUU.

Source:
http://leadership.ng/news/140813/fg-ASUU-agree-n100bn-deal-varsities-infrastructure

SOURCE PLZ

False!!

Funding aspect of ASUU's agitation is just a public -opinion controlling machination, the main issues lies in the earned allowance. one of my lecturers told me that if the earned allowance is approved without any renegotiation, he is expecting nothing less than 12 million naira as his own entitlement

ndrule: SOURCE PLZ

with due respect, rush to eyes center Pls

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x-razzy:
Funding aspect of ASUU's agitation is just a public -opinion controlling machination, the main issues lies in the earned allowance. one of my lecturers told me that if the earned allowance is approved without any renegotiation, he is expecting nothing less than 12 million naira as his own entitlement

Are you sure of this? is it 12 million as arrears? or per annum? or per month?

Hmmm

Its okay