GOOD START: FG TROWS 30BN NAIRA OFFER TO ASUU Federal government (FG) offered N30 billion as earned allowances to the striking university lecturersunder Academic Staff Union of Universities(AS UU) in a bid to end the strike that has lasted formore than a month now , which has resulted to stopping academic activities in some universities nationwide. As seen on the news that atop official from the Federal Ministry of Education told THIS DAY, that due to the dwindling revenue base of the government, it was ready to offer N30 billion out of 87 billion to the striking lecturers. Government’s offer is believed tobe a sincere approach in ending the strike in the midst of dwindling revenue profile occasioned by oil theft andmacro-econom ic measuresaimed at diversifying the economy. According to source, the N30 billion, which the federal government was offering, was in the conviction that consideringthe nation’s current revenue base, ASUU shouldmakesome sacrifices and go back to work in the interest of the students and the country at large. He disclosed that the government was desirous of a holistic and sustainable solution to the problems bedeviling the entire education sector, adding that the focus is on infrastructure development, which the federal government had set up the Governor GabrielSuswam-l ed University Needs Implementation Committee to handle. The NEEDS Implementation Committee had announcedon Tuesday, that N100 billion wouldbe made available to universitiesfor infrastructure development. What do you you think about this improvement? should ASUU collect the offer and resume work or should they request for more money i believe FG can do better. Post your comments below
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 20:50:24 +0000