The leadership of ASUU has revealed the huge debt owed the association by President Muhammadu Buhari which has accumulated from the previous administration.
Muhammadu Buhari
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday said the Federal Government is owing universities in the country close to N660billion, according to the Nation.
The money is part of the unpaid Needs Assessment Intervention Fund for universities in Nigeria.
The Zonal Coordinator, ASUU, University of Ibadan, Prof. Segun Ajiboye said this in a chat with journalists in Ibadan on Monday.
He reminded the federal government that the 2009 agreement which was due for a review in 2012 has not been addressed, adding that ASUU had written severally to the government on the need to restart negotiation on the agreement to reflect modern and contemporary realities.