The Federal Government said it has deposited the N200bn promised as funding to universities into an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, and the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, confirmed this on Tuesday.
The amount is meant for the renewal of infrastructure in public universities in the country.
Okupe, who featured on Channels Television programme ‘Sunrise Daily’, said from the government’s perspective, everything that needed to be done had been done.
According to him, most of the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have been agreed upon at the 13-hour meeting the union had with President Goodluck Jonathan which ended in the early hours of October 4.
He said, “At the end of that meeting, the Government proposed that everything that has been agreed should be put in a memorandum of agreement and that the two parties should sign, but the leadership of ASUU declined and said instead of that, they would rather have a letter of comfort expressing everything that has been resolved therein, and that will suffice for them.”
Okupe stressed that the attitude of the ASUU leadership showed that the seed of discord and evidence of bad faith already existed.
“It is unfortunate that somebody died but notwithstanding, that cannot be a justification for delaying the implementation of an agreement for 21 or more days,” he said.
Also at a press conference in Abuja, Okojie, who also confirmed that the money had been deposited in CBN, said the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had confirmed to him that the N200bn had been deposited in the Central Bank of Nigeria. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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our govt are not sincere enough
ReplyDeleteshurup
DeleteThis FG are not always sincere, always full of deceit. Now here come another story that 200B have been deposited in CBN. Where is the prove? ASUU will never buy this cheap lies nor call off base on this.. FG should just do the right thing the right way!
ReplyDeletegovt indeed.dis woman don't even know dat people are suffering.
ReplyDeleteOKUPE & OKOJIE lie lie men. Men without honour. I pity the children U liers are raising for our SOCIETY.
ReplyDeleteSHAMELESS PEOPLE!
If Doyin Okupe, Abati and Labaran Maku opens their mouth and talk please don't believe them they are being paid to tell lies.
ReplyDeletei am just passing by. stupid and shameless leaders. you only have barely one year to live that position. men of deciet
ReplyDeleteAnd u fink they will come out in public to say such , men should learn to confirm things before opening the mouth wide.....let wait and see
ReplyDeleteU guys should stop saying what u no nothing abt pls...how can fg say such on air if they haven't done that.
ReplyDeleteMy people suffers for lack of knowledge,who has ever seen proof on d part of ASUU?asuu is just using d opportunity to destabilize d govt.do dey need d cash now?u asked for fu ding and u re getting it as agreed,u asked for ur allowance and dat is assured,now u want anoda salary dat u did not worked for to cause more delay,haba,some pipu are here saying rubbish,what else do assu want again,let dem go back to work jare.if dey re tired of teaching dey should let us know so we fi d anoda teachers,besides,some of dis lectures can not pass jamb successfully o,dey come to classroom wit book and read to us ni,we Nigerians should wise up pls rather Dan posting nonsense here I beg.
ReplyDeleteIts quite obvious 2c hw sum ppl tink. Nd da irony of it all is dat sum of dem r educated. Hw in God's name do u tink 1 wuld b focus in governin da affairs of a country such as nigeria were sum pple r makin it ungovernable. It suprises me a lot 2c sum nigerians huh had actually voted 4 mr president stil postin ol sort of insultiv nd wicked comments abt him. Luk it've bin clear even 4rm da bginin da sum top officials claim 2 make his tenure ungovernable. Nd naw dey hav formed alliance wit asuu, boko haram, along side oda issues 2dishort da focus of mr president's plan. Luk guys, dis ppl kald Asuu knw wat dey r up 2, dey r no more fightin 4 da purpose of education, nd naw dey hav turn way round demandin dia own share. Cum 2tink of it, wat hapund 2 al dos fund derive by da schools either 4rm school fees nd even de money derived 4rm dis so kald jamb nd post ume? Atleast it wuld hav bin able 2reduce sum issues concernd wit infastructures. Cuttin da story short, ASUU strike iz anoda form of boko haram, bkus dey share da same meanin. Boko haram c western education as a sin nd here r Asuu sayin we wunt teach again wit both standin on dia ground sharin almost da same purpose wich is let's Make it so HOT ND UNGOVERNABLE FOR MR GOODLUCK JONATHAN, bt u pple shuldnt 4get dat God tuk him dia, nd wot so eva plot dos worker of iniquty has against da plans of God concernin dis country shal nt work. God bless Nigeria.
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