The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may have suspended its eight months strike, but the anxiety about the Union's demand is only intensifying the
Specifically, ASUU is requesting the release of revitalisation funds for universities, payment of its members’ earned academic allowances, the release of whitepapers from the reports of the presidential visitation panels as well as the deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution as the preferred payment platform for university workers.
But now that the University lecturers have returned to work, experts want the federal government to begin the process of fulfilling some of the agreement, under which the Union suspended the strike, or devise other means of funding the university system. I’ve also gathered that the academics had yet to get the assent of the President, General Muhammadu Buhari regarding the plan for a new agreement and the no-work-no-pay policy. This also calls for an urgent action to be taken.
Speaking to me, the executive secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund , Architect Sonny Echono said there is a need for new funding architecture in tertiary institutions to address the current issues.
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