The Nasarawa State University Keffi, NSUK is set to resume after the state government has agreed to pay the salaries of the staff of the University.
Governor Abdullahi Sule, stated this while briefing members of the state executive council at the Government House, in Lafia the state capital.
Governor Sule, while briefing the council on recent developments across the educational, health, and security sectors, announced the decision of his administration to agree to take over the payment of salaries at NSUK, thereby meeting one of taking over demands by the local chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, thus paving the way for the possible resumption of academic activities.
According to the Governor, based on the available finances to the state and especially because of the importance attached to education, his administration has agreed to take over the responsibility of paying salaries of staff at the NSUK, beginning from August 2022.
He pointed out that, so far, the management of the university, as well as the none teaching unions namely the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU have all agreed to open the university.
“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 the staff so that they don’t have to use their Internalky Generated Revenue, IGR.
“As far as we are concerned, we looked at our finances and we strongly believe that, based on the cash flow we have available to us and also because of the importance we attach to education, we should be able to start that from this month.
“That is what we are looking forward to. We are also hoping they will compliment by the moment we start the payment hopefully by Thursday or Friday, then we are hoping to see them also returning to their classes,” he stated.
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