The Federal Government has finally agreed to some major demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), following eight months of strike action by the latter.
This comes after several weeks of unfruitful negotiations between both parties over varying demands by the Union.
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Some of the ASUU demands met by the Federal Government include; exemption from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, increment of Earned Allowances of university staffs from N30billion to N35billion and revitalisation fund from N20bn to N25bn, payment of salary arrears from February to June through the old salary payment platform – Government Integrated Financial and Management Information System.
The new development was disclosed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, while reading out a communique at the end of a seven-hours negotiation meeting with ASUU representatives in Abuja on Friday, November 20.
The Government also shifted grounds on the insistence that all academic staff of federal universities must be paid through the IPPIS platform.
The breakthrough in negotiations may see “light at the end of the tunnel”, ending the 8-months strike embarked upon by university lecturers.
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