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Friday, August 16, 2013

FG Offers N30bn to Striking Lecturers


The federal government is offering N30 billion as earned allowances to the striking university lecturers in a bid to end the lingering strike, which has shut down academic activities in the universities nationwide.
While all the demands of the striking lecturers had been resolved, the bone of contention had been 'earned allowances', which they have put at N87 billion.
According to our source, the N30 billion, which the federal government was offering, was in the conviction that considering the nation’s current revenue base, ASUU should make some sacrifices and go back to work  in the interest of the students and the country at large
The NEEDS Implementation Committee had announced on Tuesday, that N100 billion would  be made available to universities for infrastructure development.
Government’s approach, he added, was on a specific, once-and-for-all solution and wants every Nigerian, including the lecturers to make sacrifices and call off the strike so that the students could resume academic work.

Is this enough for the Striking ASUU to call off the strike?

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