Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has said the Federal Government has not only fully met all the 12-point condition raised in the Memorandum of Settlement reached with the Non-Teaching Staff of Federal Universities on September 20, 2017, but has also complied faithfully with the timelines for the implementation of the agreement.
The Minister therefore asked the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, National Association of Academic Technologists and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities operating under the acronym of the Joint Action Committee, to call off the ongoing indefinite strike and make a fresh case in respect of its reservation on the implementation of the Point One of the Agreement concerning the disbursement of the N23 billion Earned Allowances.
In a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, Ngige said it was important for Nigerians to be informed that the Federal Government has fully complied with its own part of the agreement and asked the non-teaching staff of universities not to blame the Federal Government for what the striking unions termed the “skewed disbursement formula” for the N23 billion Earned Allowances released by the Federal Government.
He said: “The Joint Action Committee of Non-Teaching Staff came with twelve-point demand. We sat over it and agreed on all, on September 20, 2017. As I speak, the Federal Government has fully implemented the major contemporary issues such as payment of shortfalls, registration with PENCOM etc. in the agreement. The only grievance the unions have today is that the modality for the disbursement of the N23 billion the Federal Government released for the settlement of earned allowances is skewed against them.
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