The End Of The Present ASUU hit: Jonathan accepts N400bn Lifeline

The end to the present hit by the learned Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be in view as President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities.

The document to this effect is anticipated to be made accessible today at the gathering of the presidential managing group on implementation of the desires evaluation in the universities withthe managers of the four university-based unions – the Senior employees Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-Academic employees Union of informative and affiliated organisations (NASU), the National Association of learned Technologists (NAAT) and the learned employees amalgamation of Universities (ASUU).

The leader of SSANU, Samson Ugwoke, made the revelation while speaking to his amalgamation members at the SSANU National boss Committee (NEC) meeting held at the weekend at the University of Abuja. Ugwoke, briefing the SSANU constituents on the activities of the NEEDS assesment implementation managing group, commanded by Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam. He documented that the fund was distinct from the N100 billion administrator Suswam had increased from donor agencies and big businesses to undertake the problems of Nigerian universities in 2013.

The work foremost said: “Let me give you a tip on what the desires evaluation managing group is doing. The leader has accepted that inside the next four years; N400 billion would be consumed in infrastructural development of Nigerian universities, to change the universities to international benchmark. “N100 billion has currently been increased by Suswam managing group out of which 61 universities have been pencilled down, as contained in the NEEDS assessement managing group. The N100 billion is expected to address needs of the universities in the areaswhich include re-furbishing and renovation of address theatres and address auditoriums, re-furbishing and renovation of laboratories/ libraries and the renovation of hostels.

“The second class is construction of new hostels of worldwide benchmark, self-contained rooms, the latest form in the world. That is the standard to be constructed in every university, and furthermore the state-of-the-art laboratories as well as school rooms, address theatres and the halls.” Ugwoke sharp out that the cash had been distributed and out of the N100 billion, N96 billion had been sent to universities.