The Federal Government has agreed to release ₦30bn earned academic allowance to university lecturers under the umbrella of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
FG said that money would be paid in tranches between May 2021 and February 2022.
ASUU also disclosed that the FG had promised to spend ₦20bn on the revitalization of the education sector as part of the agreement to bring the seven-month strike to an end.
These was part of the agreement reached during the meeting between the FG and ASUU.
Earlier before the meeting started, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said students were being recruited into the ongoing #EndSARS protests as a result of the closure of universities due to the ongoing ASUU seven-month strike.
The Minister expressed optimism that ASUU would call off the strike soon, adding that the government had been finding means of ending the seven-moth strike.
Ngige and the minister of state, Festus Keyamo (SAN) and other led the government team, while ASUU delegation was led by its President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi.
he said, “For the past one week, we have all been on our toes; we have been meeting and we pray that this meeting will yield some good fruits.”
