FG Begins Payment Of Withheld ASUU Salaries

FG has begun the payment of the withheld ASUU salaries.

Glamtush reports that the Federal Government has commenced the payment of the withheld salaries of academics under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

Multiple sources in the academic sector confirmed the development to Punch correspondent in Abuja on Monday.

The chairperson of ASUU at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Prof. Gbolahan Bolarin, who confirmed the development on the record, said, “Yes, it is true. Payment has started rolling in.”

President Bola Tinubu Tinubu had in October 2023 approved the release of four of the eight months’ ASUU withheld workers’ salaries.

The salaries were withheld when the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari invoked a ‘No Work, No Pay policy’ against some university-based unions that embarked on a strike that lasted eight months in 2022.