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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the proposed education loan scheme will keep students in permanent debt.
According to a statement on Thursday after its National Executive Council meeting at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, ASUU said it was surprised by the reports it received on the failed promises of the Bola Tinubu-led administration toward addressing the lingering issues that forced the union to embark on the nationwide strike action of February–October 2022.
Successive governments in Nigeria had always paid lip service to the agreements it signed with the union which inadvertently made the union always resolve to use industrial action to fight for its rights.
Unfortunately, some of these agreements, including payment of Earned Academic Allowance, and the unprogressive renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, removal from the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, revitalisation funds, withheld salaries have not been implemented by the government.
