The federal government, led by President Bola Tinubu, has started paying the money owed to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Multiple sources confirmed this news to journalists on Monday. In October 2023, President Bola Tinubu approved the release of four out of the eight months of salaries that ASUU had withheld.
“Yes, it is true. Payment has started rolling in,” the chairperson of ASUU at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Prof. Gbolahan Bolarin, told Punch.
These salaries were held back when the former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration implemented a ‘No work, no pay policy’ against university-based unions that went on an eight-month strike in 2022.
The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, recently announced that the government has increased the salaries of university workers by 35 percent.
The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, announced that the government has raised the salaries of university workers by 35%.
Additionally, he mentioned that universities have been granted autonomy by being removed from the Integrated Payment and Payroll Information System.
Mamman also stated that universities are now able to recruit and fill vacancies without needing a waiver. These decisions were made after informal discussions with unions representing tertiary institutions.
