{"id":17919,"date":"2024-02-19T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-govt-begins-payment-of-asuus-withheld-salaries\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:02:50","slug":"nigerian-govt-begins-payment-of-asuus-withheld-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-govt-begins-payment-of-asuus-withheld-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Nigerian govt begins payment of ASUU\u2019s withheld salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Federal Government has commenced payment of the seized salaries of public university lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.<\/p>\n<p>Comrade Nobert Oyibo Eze, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka branch Chairman of ASUU confirmed the development to DAILY POST.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, they have started paying. Even though I\u2019m yet to receive mine, some of our lecturers have received two months\u2019 payments out of the outstanding eight months\u2019 withheld salary,\u201d Eze said.<\/p>\n<p>Another lecturer also told DAILY POST that the federal government started paying on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that two months\u2019 salaries have been paid to him out of the eight months owed him.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that President Bola Tinubu Tinubu had in October 2023 approved the release of four of the eight months\u2019 ASUU withheld salaries of the workers.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Muhammadu Buhari had invoked a \u2018No Work, No Pay policy\u2019 against ASUU for embarking on a strike that lasted eight months in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Nigerian govt begins payment of ASUU\u2019s withheld salaries<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has commenced payment of the seized salaries of public university lecturers under the aegis of the Academic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5504,15,761],"tags":[5507,764,180,762],"class_list":["post-17919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asuu","category-news","category-top-headlines","tag-asuu","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}