The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has warned the Federal Government that any attempt to disburse the promised N50 billion earned allowance exclusively to academic unions will provoke industrial unrest across Nigeria’s universities.
Speaking during a two-day Universities and Inter-University Centres Trade Group Council Meeting in Abuja, the Union’s General Secretary, Peter Adeyemi, accused the government of breaching a 2022 agreement that promised equitable disbursement of the allowance to both academic and non-teaching staff unions.
“We have seen a disturbing pattern. When it comes to sharing earned allowances, the government allocates 70 per cent to academic staff, leaving just 30 per cent for the three non-teaching staff unions. We protested this injustice in the past, and it partly triggered our strike in 2022,” Adeyemi said.
He recalled that during the 2022 strike, the union was invited to a meeting chaired by then Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, where a resolution was reached and signed, committing the Federal Government to a N50 billion earned allowance payment for both teaching and non-teaching staff.
