JUST IN: Tinubu approves release of varsity lecturers four months withheld salaries

President Bola Tinubu has approved the payment of four out of eight months withheld salaries of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in September last year invoked the “No Work, No Pay” policy in a bid to force the university lecturers to suspend their eight-month strike at the time.

ASUU declared an indefinite strike in the nation’s universities on February 14, 2022, following the Federal Government’s failure to honour the agreements reached by both parties.