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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, or any other union should not use it as bait to get anything from the government ASUU, therefore, advised NAAT or any other staff union to fight their battles their ways. The Chairman, University of Lagos, UNILAG chapter of ASUU, who is also a member of the National Executive Committee of the union, Dr. Dele Ashiru, declared this on Sunday while reacting to claims by NAAT expressing dissatisfaction with the sharing arrangement of the N40 billion released by the Federal Government as Earned Academic Allowances for university workers Who pays the Earned Academic Allowances, is it ASUU or the government? In the first instance, ASUU submitted its demands to the government and we made our case, and based on that, the government released some money. The money was not even up to what we demanded but we made the necessary concession in the interest of all However, the National Uni...

The National Association of Academic Technologists has issued a 14-day strike notice to the Federal Government. The university workers are protesting alleged dissimilarity in sharing of the N40 billion earned allowances released to the four university unions. They are also requesting the release of 50 per cent of the N71 billion accrued allowances being owed members of the union based on the 2009 agreement with the government The NAAT President, Ibeji Nwokoma, told reporters in Abuja on Saturday, that the association has written to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, notifying him of their planned industrial action He said, “We have written to the government that NAAT as a body ought to have been given a specific percentage of the N40bn. You must define it; you can’t just say ASUU 75 per cent and others 25 per cent. Let us know the specific percentage you are giving to NAAT as a union In the MoU we entered with the government on November 18, in item number 2b, w...