The Federal Government said it has deposited
the N200bn promised as funding to universities
into an account with the Central Bank of
Nigeria.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, and the
Executive Secretary of the National Universities
Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, confirmed this
on Tuesday.
The amount is meant for the renewal of
infrastructure in public universities in the
country.
Okupe, who featured on Channels Television
programme ‘Sunrise Daily’, said from the
government’s perspective, everything that
needed to be done had been done.
According to him, most of the demands of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities have been
agreed upon at the 13-hour meeting the union
had with President Goodluck Jonathan which
ended in the early hours of October 4.
He said, “At the end of that meeting, the
Government proposed that everything that has
been agreed should be put in a memorandum of
agreement and that the two parties should sign,
but the leadership of ASUU declined and said
instead of that, they would rather have a letter
of comfort expressing everything that has been
resolved therein, and that will suffice for them.”
Okupe stressed that the attitude of the ASUU
leadership showed that the seed of discord and
evidence of bad faith already existed.
“It is unfortunate that somebody died but
notwithstanding, that cannot be a justification
for delaying the implementation of an
agreement for 21 or more days,” he said.
Also at a press conference in Abuja, Okojie,
who also confirmed that the money had been
deposited in CBN, said the Coordinating
Minister of the Economy and Minister of
Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had
confirmed to him that the N200bn had been
deposited in the Central Bank of Nigeria.

so the strike is gonna end soon

source::::Emmanuel TV....mtcheeww

Amen

Ok Good... @least FG is on point now, over to ASUU to play ball now #still watching from silverbird cinema

Mr Faggae over to you!