Briefing members
of the State Executive Council, Governor Abdullahi Sule, explained that recent
developments across the educational, health and security sectors of the state,
have brought the decision of the state government to agree to take over the
payment of salaries at the state University, thereby meeting one of the key
demands by the local chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU), for the resumption of academic activities.
The Governor said,
based on the available finances of the state and the importance attached to
education, he has agreed to take over the responsibility of paying the salaries
of staff at the NSUK, beginning this month, to allow students return to school.
He disclosed that
so far, the management of the university and the non-teaching unions namely the
Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic
Staff Union of Universities (NASU) have all agreed to commence academic
activities in the university.
He explained, “One
of the conditions they gave to us, the most important condition, is to ensure
that we take over the full payment of salaries of all staff so that they don’t
have to use their IGR.”
He added that the
state government looked at her finances and strongly believe that, based on the
cash flow available to it and also because of the importance attached to
education, the state government should be able to start that from this month.
He hoped the state
government would complement, saying that at the moment, it would start the
payment hopefully by Thursday or Friday, hoping to see them (lecturers) return
to classes for academic activities.
Also updating the council about his recent activities concerning education, the governor explained that following his recent visit to the Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy, the agency of the ministry, the National Communication Commission (NCC), through the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has donated ICT gadgets to the College of Education in Akwanga.
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