The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator
Chris Ngige, has urged Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to hasten consultations with its members in order to return to the negotiation table before Friday.
Senator Ngige, who expressed optimism that members of ASUU will accept the new offer by the Federal Government and end the eight-month strike, said the offer is one of the best they have ever gotten as everything they asked for has been granted.
Reading out the communiqué at the end of a seven-hour negotiation with ASUU members in Abuja, Senator Chris Ngige, had said the government also agreed to ASUU’s demand to pay their members’ salary arrears from February to June through the old salary payment platform, Government Integrated Financial and Management Information System.
According to report, the Federal Government has accepted the demand by ASUU that the lecturers be exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
The government also offered to increase the Earned Allowances to university staff from thirty billion naira to thirty-five billion naira and the Revitalization Fund from twenty billion naira to twenty-five billion naira.
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