{"id":73717,"date":"2025-08-20T12:50:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73717"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:50:42","slug":"asuu-rejects-fgs-n10m-loan-scheme-demands-withheld-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/asuu-rejects-fgs-n10m-loan-scheme-demands-withheld-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU Rejects FG\u2019s N10m Loan Scheme, Demands Withheld Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the Federal Government\u2019s newly launched Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund, a loan scheme offering up to N10 million to academic and non-academic staff.<\/p>\n<p>Rising from its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, on Tuesday, the union demanded instead the immediate release of three-and-a-half months\u2019 withheld salaries of its members.<\/p>\n<p>ASUU President, Christopher Piwuna, in a communiqu\u00e9 issued after the meeting, faulted the government\u2019s move to list the union among beneficiaries of the loan scheme, describing it as an attempt to make ASUU a \u201cguarantor of loans it knows nothing about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The union further urged the Federal Government to fast-track the renegotiation and implementation of the ongoing FG-ASUU agreement, led by the Yayale Ahmed Committee, stressing that collective bargaining must be respected.<\/p>\n<p>To press its demands, ASUU announced plans to embark on nationwide protests, accusing the government of insincerity and delay in addressing long-standing issues affecting university lecturers.<\/p>\n<p>The Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund, unveiled last week by the Minister of State for Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, offers zero-interest loans to staff of tertiary institutions. But ASUU insists that payment of withheld salaries, not loans, is the real solution to its members\u2019 welfare challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the Federal Government\u2019s newly launched Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund, a loan scheme offering up to N10 million to academic and non-academic staff. Rising from its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, on Tuesday, the union demanded instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73719,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73717\/revisions\/73719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}