The federal government has released N40 billion for the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, for payment of earned allowances of academic and non academic staff.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, who gave the update said the FG may also release N30 billion as revitalisation fund to universities by the end of January.
TheNewsGuru reports that N20 of the N40 billion was voted for the payment of earned allowances of members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SANU), Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, and technologists.
Although the non-academic staff have threatened strike over the sharing formula used by the National Universities Commission, NUC, the government said when a similar payment was made in 2019, they got N8 billion.
