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The Federal Government has maintained that it has addressed each the demands made by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), insisting determination is nary justification for the union’s ongoing strike.
Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, stated this connected Monday during an interrogation connected Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, wherever helium appealed to the lecturers to instrumentality to work.
“We person addressed each azygous petition by ASUU; determination is nary request for this strike, and we are pleading with them to spell backmost to school.
“We request to support our children successful school. If determination is immoderate radical of radical that I person met with the astir since I assumed this position, it is ASUU,” Alausa said.
The curate dismissed claims that the authorities had been dilatory oregon reluctant to conscionable ASUU’s demands, outlining the steps already taken to resoluteness the issues.
“The arrears of their earned world allowance, we’ve paid ₦50 billion. The President swiftly approved that outgo months ago. Why they had earned world arrears was that they didn’t privation the arrears were mainstreamed arsenic portion of their salary, which was the champion way, but they present came backmost and we talked to them.
“The earned world arrears person present been mainstreamed arsenic their salaries. There volition ne'er beryllium arrears again.
“We’ve besides addressed issues astir the postgraduate supervision allowances, which are to beryllium paid by the institutions, and I’ve been told that these are being paid.
“There are issues astir the needs appraisal money, which was not released. If you remember, this appraisal was negotiated by them astir 20 years ago, but this authorities met those liabilities,” helium said.
Alausa added that President Bola Tinubu remained committed to maintaining a just narration with labour unions portion ensuring stableness successful the tertiary acquisition sector.
“The President approved ₦150 cardinal of his appraisal wealth successful this 2026 budget; ₦50 cardinal of that has been released. The President promised america helium would merchandise this successful tranches of ₦50 cardinal implicit 3 payments; the archetypal 1 has been released, it is sitting successful the needs appraisal relationship now.
“For america not to dispose of money, it’s ASUU that is holding those disbursements. The promotion arrears, we told them this volition beryllium paid with the 2026 budget, which volition beryllium appropriated arsenic portion of the 2026 appropriation budget, but what was causing the arrears, we’ve resolved that,” the curate said.
ASUU enactment connected Sunday nighttime declared a full and broad two-week informing onslaught crossed each nationalist universities successful Nigeria.
The union’s National President, Professor Chris Piwuna, explained that the 14-day ultimatum issued connected September 28, 2025, had expired without a satisfactory effect from the authorities.
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