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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Adesina Wahab & Joseph Erunke
As the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, suspended its nine-month old strike, yesterday, hope of normalcy returning to the ivory towers, may have been dashed, as non-teaching staff in the universities have vowed not to go back to work if the Federal Government does not correct the alleged imbalance in the sharing formula of the about N40 billion earned allowances.
N40 billion conundrum
Daily Trust reports that part of the agreements the government reached with ASUU at Tuesday’s meeting was to release N40 billion as the Earned Allowance and N30bn for the revitalization of the university system bringing the total payment to N70 billion.
Reacting to the sharing formula of the N40bn, the President of NAAT, Comrade Ibeji Nwokoma said anyone thinking that the non-teaching staff unions in the universities would resume with the recent development was day-dreaming except the government corrected the imbalance.
He said the union was making frantic efforts to reach Directors and Permanent Secretary, Ministries of Education and Labour and Employment to draw their attention to the fresh brewing crisis.
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The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has finally called off its 10-month-old strike, bringing an end to the prolonged strike which began in March 2020.
This development was announced by the National President of the ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, at a briefing of the union in Abuja on Wednesday, December 23, 2020.
He explained that the development followed consultations with its National Executive Council (NEC).
The decision to suspend the strike action came after the federal government made an offer to pay the lecturers two months salary arrears with an undertaking to progressively offset the outstanding salaries by end of January 2021.