FG says it can't meet ASUU’s N284bn call for

Lagos - The Federal authorities on Wednesday said at the same time as it had met seven out of the eight demands of the educational team of workers Union of Universities, it could not meet the union’s call for for earned allowance worth N284bn, Punch reviews.

This, the Federal authorities stated, changed into due to economic recession.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, said this at the same time as answering questions from country residence correspondents at the cease of a meeting of the Federal executive Council presided over through Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on the Presidential Villa, Abuja.


Ngige stated there was no way the authorities should pay the allowance because there was no money.

The minister said the government had conceded to the union the proper to exclude endowment funds that gathered to universities from the Treasury unmarried Account.

He stated whilst the authorities agreed to ASUU’s demand to exclude endowment price range from the TSA, that did not imply that universities’ councils would not have proper to audit such an account.

The instructional personnel Union of Universities on Tuesday confirmed that it had ended its one week national caution strike over the non-implementation of its 2009 agreement with the Federal government.

The President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, who stated this in Abuja, advised teachers to go back again to their school rooms.