FG/ASUU Deal : Lecturers In Professorial Cadre" Get N140,000 Monthly Top-up- Education Minister Reveals

Lecturers in the “professorial cadre” will now be enjoying a ₦140,000 monthly top-up, following the landmark deal signed between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa has revealed 

ASUU and the FG had earlier on Wednesday, sealed a landmark deal which replaces the 2009 FG-ASUU agreement.

Alausa revealed part of the deal while featuring on Channels Television’s current affairs live show , "Politics Today", on Wednesday monitored by Edu-biznews 

“This allowance is for professors. As long as you’re a full-time professor or you’re a reader, you’ll get that additional top-up." 

“No, it’s been bucketed per annum salary, but you get it every month, and I can tell you a professor will get almost over N140,000 top-off every month. A reader gets about 70,000 top-up additional every month.”the minister stated

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The push according to him, is one of the measures to end the incessant strikes by lecturers in Nigeria’s public universities.

The minister listed some of the key components of the agreement to include a 40 per cent review of emoluments for university teaching staff and the introduction of a professorial cadre.

“For the first time, the FG has approved a new professorial cadre allowance that apply to senior academics at the level of full time professors and readers in our tertiary institutions,” the minister said during the signing and unveiling of the agreement in Abuja.

“Let me emphasize clearly that these allowances apply strictly to full time and not part time professors and readers.

“This approval recognises the significant workload, administrative, scholarly and research responsibilities borne by academics at this level by the virtue of their profession and positions as professors or readers in our universities.”

Alausa assured the lecturers of the readiness of Federal Government to ensure sustenance of the deal

“When the president was convinced that he had the funding, he signed off. Today we have the funding to support the 40% salary increase that we’ve given our lecturers in all our tertiary institutions.

“We started with ASUU today. The enhanced and academic allowances, nine of them in all, have been very structured now—well structured. The lecturers know, academics know who is paying: the one the universities will pay, and the one the federal government will pay via their personnel costs.”