The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has approved a partial waiver of the “No Work, No Pay” order on striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and ordered the release of four months of withheld salary.
The Federal Government offered 23.5 per cent salary increase for all categories of the workforce in federal universities, except for the professorial cadre, which would enjoy a 35 per cent upward review.
In the midst of the unending impasse of the current Strikes of the four University-based Unions which was nearing 160 days, President Buhari has directed the HME, Mallam Adamu Adamu, to take full charge of the negotiations