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N40bn allowance: ASUU defends sharing formula, varsity workers begin protests


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Members of the Non-Academic Staff Union and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities protesting the non-payment of minimum wage, welfare arrears, IPPIS and sharing
formula of the N40bn Earned Allowance in Abuja on Tuesday. Photo: Olatunji Obasa
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Non-academic unions in universities and the Academic Staff  Union of Universities on Tuesday differed on the Federal Government’s N40bn earned allowance for the institutions’ workers.
While ASUU President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi,  in an interview with
The PUNCH, justified the amount promised lecturers out of the N40bn, non-academic unions described the Federal Government’s sharing formula as illogical and a divide and rule tactic. ....

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