{"id":92470,"date":"2022-03-04T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=92470"},"modified":"2022-03-04T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T16:04:36","slug":"asuu-fg-doesnt-have-money-to-meet-your-demands-ngige-tells-striking-lecturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/asuu-fg-doesnt-have-money-to-meet-your-demands-ngige-tells-striking-lecturers\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU: FG Doesn\u2019t Have Money To Meet Your Demands \u2013 Ngige Tells Striking Lecturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1726381335644797317\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senator Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour, has said that the federal government does not have the money to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ngige stated this on Thursday night while speaking on channels Television.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He explained that the N1.3 trillion ASUU is demanding for was promised by the Jonathan\u2019s administration and not the Buhari\u2019s administration.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ngige said: \u201cThe N1.3trillion you are talking about was promised by the (Goodluck) Jonathan government. Oil was selling between $100 to $120 per barrel then and the revenue of the federation was rich.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIt was promised by that administration and they promised to kickstart the payment. They paid N200 billion which they borrowed from TETFund. They did not take it from the federation account. That payment spiralled even into 2016 \u2014 to our regime.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\ufffc<br \/>\n\u201cA committee was set up with ASUU as members. Government said \u2018we are going to drop N25billion for you to show you in good faith that we are not talking nonsense.\u2019<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat one was dropped. Again, another money was paid last year because the committee couldn\u2019t come up with anything that will generate funds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He further explained that the present government cannot honour the previous agreement but promised to seek other options to fund the universities.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe don\u2019t have it. The government didn\u2019t say we are going to pay N1.1trillion that is remaining. They said we don\u2019t have this money and under the principle of capacity and ability to pay, let us renegotiate it because TETFund is still there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless you want us to take money from TETFund and deceive you like it was done in that period.\u201d<\/p><\/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>Senator Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour, has said that the federal government does not have the money to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).&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":92471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92470","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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