THE Federal Government has made fresh concession to
the demands by the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU), in a bid to end the over three-month-old strike.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the negotiation with the
leadership of the union, which had now been taken by
Vice President Namadi Sambo, struck a new deal on
Friday, last week.
In the new agreement reached with the union, government
had agreed to increase the N30 billion already released
for the payment of academic earned allowance to N40
billion.
This, according to sources in the meeting held with the
vice president, also agreed that the N40 billion should be
regarded only as first instalment, and not a once-and-
for-all payment.
The memorandum drafted at the of the meeting indicated
that government would top it up with further releases
once universities were through with the disbursement of
the N40 million.
Accordingly, vice chancellors have been urged to expedite
the disbursement within the shortest possible time, using
guiding templates that had been sent by the committee of
vice chancellors to them.
This fresh concession by the Federal Government
followed two meetings on Thursday, September 19 and
Friday, October 11, which had representatives of
Association of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities,
led by its chairman, Professor Hamisu ATBU, and ASUU
representatives led by its president, Dr Nasir Isa Fagge.
The government side had Vice President Sambo, Minister
of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, among others.
On the implementation of the Needs Assessment to
Nigerian Universities report, it was stated that
government was cognisant and mindful of the ability of
universities to effectively and efficiently utilise the N100
billion fund
immediately, hence that figure.
Also, on project prioritisation, universities would 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.
The government also assured that the operations of the
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) would not be
impaired, and that the regular TETFund intervention
disbursement to Universities would continue unaffected.
Sources at both meetings said ASUU president thanked
the vice president for taking over negotiations and
promised to consult with his ASUU constituency.
However, ASUU president, Fagge, as of the time of filing
this report, did not respond to text message or calls to his
mobile phone to confirm the new agreement.

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G̶̲̥̅Ơ̴̴̴̴͡.̮Ơ̴̴̴͡D̶̲̥̅. ASUU should respond intelligently by suspending its strike.

my guy witch get hand for this matter ASUU refused Oh I cry