The Federal Government says non-academic staff members of universities will get half of their withheld salaries should President Bola Tinubu approve the payment of their salary arrears.
Education Minister, Tahir Mamman, who stated this in a monitored televised interview on Wednesday, argued that members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) were not on strike for the same period in 2022 as their academic counterparts.
Recall that in March, SSANU and NASU members embarked on a one-week warning strike to protest their withheld salaries by the Federal Government where the two unions berated the Federal Government for paying withheld salaries to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) while neglecting the non-academic unions.
The Education Minister, however, said the government has been doing everything possible to get a relief for the unions.
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