Minister of Education, Professor Ruquyyatu Rufai, has said that about N106billion is needed to meet the demands of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which she said could not be sourced now.
The minister, who announced this while answering questions from newsmen in Minna, Niger State yesterday, said though there was an agreement between government and ASUU in 2009, both parties did not agree on where the fund would be sourced from.
She said: “The initial agreement was that the money to offset the allowances as demanded by ASUU was supposed to come from the Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, from all the universities across the country.
“But the IGR of all these universities put together is just about N25 billiion and we are looking for N106 billion.
’’Even if we do not touch the IGR from these universities, we cannot meet up; so we have to find a way of sourcing for this money,” the minister remarked.
The minister who was in Minna for the commissioning of the N56 million new Zonal office of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, said that as at now, government had implemented nine of the demands of the union.
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