Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ (ASUU) will be in a joyous mood at the moment as part of their outstanding payment is being made by the federal government.
Prof. Gbolahan Bolarin, the head of ASUU at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, verified the development. he said: “Yes, it is true”.
The money has begun to come in.
In October 2023, President Bola Tinubu gave his approval for the workers’ eight months’ worth of pay that had been withheld.
The salaries were withheld when the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari invoked a ‘No Work, No Pay policy’ against some university-based unions that embarked on a strike, which lasted for eight months in 2022.
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