FG Has Offers ₦65 Billion To End ASUU Strike, Exempts ASUU From IPPIS

The Federal Government on Friday offered authority of the Academic Staff Union of Universities N65 billion for Earned Academic Allowance and revitalisation. 

The public authority likewise consented to pay the striking teachers through the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System) until ASUU's University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) was prepared for utilization. 

These are a portion of the arrangements came to at the continued gathering between the initiative of ASUU and the government group on Friday. 

Toward the finish of the seven-hour meeting, Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige told columnists that the Accountant-General of the Federation ( AGF) has offered to deliver N40 billion or in the other option, N35 billion to be shared by all the enrolled Trade Unions in the colleges subsequent to giving vital proof of having acquired the recompense. 

"The FG emphasized that her proposal of N40 billion or 35 billion whichever is acknowledged by ASUU was for all the colleges associations: ASUU had suggested that N40 billion be paid quickly for all associations ," the Minister said. 

Ngige said all bad habit chancellors are to submit subtleties of the EAA/EA to the National Universities Commission (NUC) at the latest November 30. 

Talking on the issue of retained pay rates, Ngige said the Federal Ministry of Labor and Federal Ministry of Education will survey the issue of "no work, no compensation" as specified in Section 43 of the Trade Disputes Act Cap T8 laws of the organization of Nigeria, 2004 with the end goal of getting endorsement for the retained pay rates to be paid.