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       FG To Offer ASUU N30bn, Asks Lecturers ToMake Sacrifices And Res
       ume Work
       By: Ebenezer Date: August 16, 2013, 7:28 am
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       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.
       A top official from the Federal Ministry of
       Education told THISDAY Thursday, that due
       to the dwindling revenue base of the
       government, it was ready to offer N30
       billion to the striking lecturers under the
       auspices of Academic Staff Union of
       Universities (ASUU), to end the strike.
       Government’s position is believed to be a
       sincere approach in ending the strike in the
       midst of dwindling revenue profile
       occasioned by oil theft and macro-economic
       measures aimed at diversifying the
       economy.
       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.
       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 Gabriel Suswam-led University
       Needs Implementation Committee to handle.
       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.
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