The Federal Government has finally agreed to release N30 billion earned academic allowance to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU .
The Government will pay the money in tranches between May 2021 and January 2022.As part of the concession to end the seven-month strike, the government also pledged to spend N20bn on the revitalisation of the education sector.
These agreements were reached during the meeting between the Federal Government and the academic staff union leadership on Thursday.
At the meeting, the body of lecturers, insisted that the government should pay their outstanding salaries through GIFMIS before full implementation of University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, but the government insisted on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS
ASUU, also, directed all its members across universities in Nigeria to reject IPPIS officials coming to various campuses on Monday for biometric data capturing of its members.
This was contained in an official letter, signed by Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, President of ASUU and sent to all zonal coordinators and all its members on Thursday.
The union vowed not to jeopardize the ongoing critical engagement with federal government.
