The Federal Government has unveiled a new structure for the payment of professors’ allowances in public universities.
The new payment structure is part of the renegotiation
agreement signed between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU).
On Wednesday, the federal government signed a renegotiated
agreement with ASUU to address the recurring strikes in Nigeria’s public
universities.
Tunji Alausa, minister of education, and Suwaiba Sa’id
Ahmad, minister of state for education, presided over the meeting where the
agreement was signed.
The new agreement follows intensive renegotiation between
the government committee and leadership of ASUU, which was concluded in 2025.
It also put an end to a 16-year stalemate in implementing
the contentious 2009 FG-ASUU pact on the service conditions of public tertiary
school lecturers.
Chris Piwuna, ASUU president, said the union is hopeful that
the federal government will be committed to the agreement.
In the renegotiated agreement, the federal government
approved the payment of consolidated academic tools allowances (CATA) for
academic staff.
The CATA, marked as annex I in the document, covers
journal/publication, learned society, conference, internet access, and book
allowances.
According to the agreement, a professor will receive
N1,740,000 per annum as an allowance, while the reader allowance is pegged at
N840,000 per annum for those on the consolidated university academic salary
structure (CONUASS) 07 and 06.
The government noted that earned academic allowances (EAA),
attached as annex II, are paid only to entitled academic staff when relevant
duties are carried out.
The government stated that the new remuneration package will
take effect from January 1, 2026.
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