Academic Staff Union Of Universities Can’t Get N110 Billion Fund—Ngige

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Academic Staff Union of Universities&comma; ASUU’s demands for N110 billion Revitalisation fund cannot be met&comma; at least&comma; for now<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the Academic Staff <strong>Union<&sol;strong> of Universities&comma; ASUU&comma; may have to wait a while before their demands for N110 billion Revitalisation fund can be looked into&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This is the position of the federal government of Nigeria during in a meeting on Thursday with the Union&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The federal government’s position was conveyed to the academic union by Dr Chris Ngige&comma; Minister of Labour and Productivity&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The meeting had been conveyed to deliberate for resolution on ASUU’s demands from the federal government&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Amongst the demands were N110b Revitalisation Fund&semi; N30b Earned Allowance and review of the Integrated Personnel Payroll System IPPS&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The government however&comma; stated that it is incapable of meeting these demands due largly to dwindling resources coupled with the outbreak of pandemic&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But as a remedy&comma; the federal government&comma; about two weeks back&comma; released N30 billion as Earned Allowance for varsity workers and N20 billion for the Revitalisation of the universities&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;To ASUU&comma; that is just a drop in the ocean&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Wednesday’s meeting which was expected to resolves the issues and pave the way for resumption of academic activities ended in a deadlock&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;