{"id":89786,"date":"2021-12-12T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=89786"},"modified":"2021-12-12T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T11:14:56","slug":"strike-fg-pays-asuu-n52-5bn-revitalisation-fund-earned-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/strike-fg-pays-asuu-n52-5bn-revitalisation-fund-earned-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike: FG Pays ASUU N52.5bn Revitalisation Fund, Earned Allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m24531\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The federal government has stated that it has paid lecturers N30 billion Revitalisation Fund and N22.5 billion Earned Academic Allowance, stressing that it has made lot of progress in the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding reached with the university workers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, who spoke to Pointblanknews.com at the weekend on the update of government\u2019s engagement with ASUU, said that he had received confirmation from the Federal Ministry of Finance that funds had been released to the universities for the revitalisation of infrastructure and payment of earned allowances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy yesterday, (Friday) the Accountant General\u2019s Office and the Funds Office of the Federal Ministry of Finance told me that they paid the Earned Allowances to the 38 federal universities and by today (Saturday) all the affected universities would have gotten their monies for workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have forwarded the position to the ASUU leadership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ngige also said that the contentious issue of the salary payment platform, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) was being addressed, revealing that the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has submitted its report to government.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cJust today again, NITDA submitted its report on the assessment conducted on UTAS and it has been forwarded to the Ministry of Finance, Accountant General\u2019s Office and IPPIS Office so that they will look at it and sort out other details. Copies of the report have also been forwarded to the Federal Ministry of Education and National Universities Commission (NUC)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On whether the report on UTAS was a positive one, the minister said it scored over 50 per cent of the points used in the evaluation, adding that it is work- in-progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the 500 test points that were used in rating it, we are talking about 50 per cent success rate. So, it\u2019s work-in-progress. The Ministry of Finance and Accountant General\u2019s Office are to study the report and areas that they are not satisfied they will let us know and we\u2019ll get back to NITDA because we have a combined team with the NUC and IPPIS Office,\u201d Ngige added.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the congresses being planned by ASUU to mobilise its various branches, Ngige said that the leadership of the union would be expected to inform its organs of the latest progress made both in release of payment for Earned Allowances and Revitalisation Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will tell them what happened. The important thing is that we have kept our promise that the N30 billion revitalisation fund has been paid and that N22.5 billion Earned Allowances have also been paid. So, we look forward to tackling other remaining areas like errors in computation of salaries of some of the staff and of course the question of renegotiation of agreements, which is being handled with the Federal Ministry of Education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ngige said that the issue of renegotiation of past agreements was still an internal discussion between the Ministry of Education and ASUU as well as other unions in the tertiary institutions.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has stated that it has paid lecturers N30 billion Revitalisation Fund and N22.5 billion Earned Academic Allowance, stressing that it has made lot of progress in the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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