N200 Billion University Funding: ASUU Denies Receiving Money From Federal Government

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, said on Wednesday that no government–owned university had received funding from the N200 billion earmarked for revitalizing the university education in 2014, one year after
it reached an agreement with the federal government on the matter.

Chairman of Nnamdi Azikiwe University branch of ASUU, Dennis Aribidor, who spoke in Awka, as part of activities marking the one anniversary of the killing of former ASUU
president, Professor Festus Iyayi, by the convoy of Kogi State governor, Captain Idris Wada, said the conditions that led to the strike were still there in the universities.

Aribidor expressed worry that tension was again mounting among the unions in the institutions, regretting also that no university had received money to pay arrears of earned allowances owed staff from 2009 to 2013, as
agreed with government, apart from the 30 per cent released during the ASUU strike.

Noting that it would appear that what Iyayi was fighting for before his life was cut short was in vain, the ASUU chairman observed that the most....http://talkafrica.co/ng/p/4449/n200billion-varsity-funding-asuu-denies-receiving-money-from
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