Towards
ending the
ongoing
ASUU
strike, the
Federal
Government has committed to spending
N200 billion in the 2014 budget on the
universities as well as on each of the next
three-four years until the universities are
brought to world-class standard as
demanded by ASUU leadership.
This is in addition to the N100 billion
dedicated and already made available…
Government has also increased to
N40billion as a first installment, funds for
payment of earned allowances to the
striking lecturers, an improvement from
the N30 billion previously released.
This information is contained in an internal
statement at the Federal University of
Otuoke by Professor Bolaji Aluko, its Vice-
Chancellor.
On the earned allowances, Prof. Aluko
said “Government will top it up with further
releases once universities are through with
the disbursement of this new figure of N40
million, so Vice-Chancellors are urged to
expedite this disbursement within the
shortest possible time using guiding
templates that have been sent by the CVC.”
Professor Aluko said the development
followed meetings on September 19 and
Oct 11 of representatives of the
Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian
Universities, led by Prof. Hamisu of ATBU
and ASUU reps led by its President, Dr. N.
Fagge with the Vice-President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, Arc. Namadi.
Sambo, Minister of State for Education,
Nyesom Wike and others.
In the interest of peace, Vice-President
Sambo appealed to ASUU to call off the
strike and apologized over the “take-it-or-
leave-it” comments made by the Minister of
Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Other points of agreement at the
meetings include the following:
Project Prioritization: Universities will now
be allowed to determine their priorities and
not be “rail-roaded” into implementing a
pre-determined set of projects with
respect to the NEEDS assessment.
Decisions are not to be centralized.
TETFund Intervention: Government
assured that the operations of the
TETFund will not be impaired, and that the
regular TETFund intervention disbursement
to Universities will continue, unaffected.
So the NEEDS assessment capital outlays
are in addition to regular TETFund
intervention.
Project Monitoring: A new Implementation
Monitoring Committee (IMC) for the
NEEDS Assessment intervention for
universities has been set up to take over
from the Suswan Committee. The new one is
under the Federal Ministry of Education
and chaired by the Honorable Minister of
Education. In addition, to build confidence
and ensure faithful implementation and
prevent any relapse as before, the Vice
President will meet quarterly with the IMC
to monitor progress.
Blueprint: ASUU was mandated to submit a
blue print for revitalizing the Universities
to the Vice President.
ASUU leadership will now meet to decide if
the government should be trusted again,
this time.

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