ASUU Rejected FG’s 23.5 Percent Salary Increase Offer – Adamu

Adamu Adamu, the minister of education, emphasized on Tuesday the federal government's efforts to end the strike that the Academic Staff Union of Universities initiated on February 14.

The government has promised the union a wage increase of 23.5% "for all category of the workforce in Federal Universities, save for the professorial cadre, which will enjoy a 35% upward review," Adamu stated at a news conference in Abuja.

A total of N150 billion, according to Adamu, "would be reserved for in the 2023 Budget as funding for the renovation of Federal Universities, to be distributed to the Institutions in the First Quarter of the year," was another assurance made by the government.

Also included in the budget for 2023 was a N50 billion reserve that the government said would be used "for the payment of outstanding areas of earned academic allowances, to be paid in the first quarter of the year."

According to Minister Adamu, the offer was rejected by ASUU and three other university unions that had been on strike because they felt it was "inadequate to meet their different needs needed to tackle the difficulties affecting the university sector."

Other unions like NASU, SSANU, and NAAT decided to terminate their industrial action after more talks with the administration, but ASUU chose to continue its strike indefinitely.

September 08, 2022