The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris
Ngige, has disclosed that the Federal Government
has begun the payment of salary arrears of the
striking university teachers.
But the lecturers, under the aegis of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) insisted that
the Federal Government must remit N200 billion
into the universities’ revitalisation fund before the
ongoing strike can be suspended.
ASUU leaders, who came to the negotiation table
with a former President of the union, Prof. Assisi
Asobie and President of the Nigeria Labour
Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, explained that the
payment of their salary arrears without getting a
commitment to the payment of the N200 billion for
the rehabilitation of the universities would portray
the union as being only concerned with the welfare
of its members and not the general improvement
of the teaching conditions in the institutions.
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