Tinubu, education minister praised as FG clears ₦50bn allowance owed to university lecturers, details emerge

• President Tinubu has approved the disbursement of ₦50 cardinal to wide astir 2 decades of unpaid Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) owed to assemblage staff
• The approval, which has been hailed by the beneficiaries, follows a connection by Education Minister Dr. Tunji Alausa
• UNILAG’s Prof. Yemi Oke described the improvement arsenic a breakthrough successful government-labour relations wrong Nigeria’s higher acquisition sector

Abuja, FCT - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the disbursement of ₦50 cardinal to wide a backlog of Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) owed to world and non-academic unit successful national universities.

This, according to a connection made disposable to Legit.ng connected Tuesday, July 1, resolves a decades-old quality that had strained relations betwixt the authorities and the country's tertiary education workforce.

President Bola Tinubu approved ₦50 cardinal to settee a 20-year EAA indebtedness owed to assemblage workers.
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It was gathered that the outgo follows a connection by Education Minister Dr. Tunji Alausa and marks the archetypal large disbursement to code the allowances, which had remained unsettled for astir 20 years contempt aggregate agreements and failed promises by erstwhile administrations.

Disbursements person begun, with assemblage unit reportedly confirming receipt of funds.

Education curate Alausa shares details

Dr. Alausa, earlier announcing the involution successful April, said the funds were released with the nonstop support of President Tinubu, who “reaffirmed his content successful the capableness of Nigerian younker and the invaluable relation of assemblage unit successful nurturing them.”

“This involution is much than financial,” Alausa said. “It is simply a reaffirmation of our committedness to rebuilding the acquisition assemblage and ensuring our students person globally competitory training.”

UNILAG don praises Tinubu’s commitment

Reacting to the development, Professor Yemi Oke of the Faculty of Law astatine the University of Lagos praised the Tinubu medication for fulfilling a committedness that had languished for years.

“The existent contented present is not the quantum oregon the sum,” Oke said. “It is the thoughtfulness, sincerity, and integrity of fulfilling a committedness that was not adjacent made by him, but which helium took idiosyncratic work to settle.”

He noted that erstwhile administrations, including those with professors serving arsenic ministers and vice presidents, failed to resoluteness the allowance crisis.

Oke telephone for salaryrReform

Prof. Oke urged the authorities to travel the EAA outgo with a reappraisal of lecturers’ salaries, pointing retired that nary Nigerian prof presently earns up to $500 a month.

“President Tinubu has already won the hearts of millions of students, their parents, and assemblage unit with the combined effect of the EAA outgo and the Student Loan scheme,” helium said.

He added that assemblage unit besides lend importantly to nationalist development, including information successful elections arsenic returning officers and successful grooming professionals successful cardinal sectors similar wellness and aviation.

While immoderate observers whitethorn construe the determination arsenic politically motivated up of the 2027 wide elections, Prof. Oke called it “good politics” that benefits a captious constituency.

"For those who emotion to work 'politics' into each measurement oregon action, this volition beryllium a just and bully authorities if Nigerian University teachers person a reviewed and enhanced wage since 2009 nether President Bola Tinubu", the student stated."As a constituency, we cognize what to bash to “payback” arsenic assemblage staff, and done our top Nigerian students and their arrogant parents with our votes and our continued work to humanity and our fatherland, NIGERIA. God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria."

Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) are negotiated entitlements for assemblage staff, covering other hours worked, postgraduate supervision, research, and different duties beyond modular teaching hours. The backlog had accumulated since the aboriginal 2000s, becoming a large root of strikes and concern actions by unions specified arsenic ASUU (Academic Staff Union of Universities) and NASU (Non-Academic Staff Union).

Alausa pushes for much reforms successful acquisition sector

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the acquisition minister, Alausa, is rolling retired a bid of time‑bound reforms aimed astatine tightening schoolhouse safety, overhauling vocational grooming and linking section colleges to overseas universities.

On Monday, June 16, curate of authorities for acquisition Suwaiba Sa’id Ahmad received a delegation from Britain’s Loughborough University to sermon associated programmes successful science, exertion and vocational education.

Two Transnational Education committees volition trial six concern models for Nigerian universities, the ministry said.

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Source: Legit.ng