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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said his Finance counterpart, Zainab Ahmed, will find means to pay the earned allowances to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) due to the Federal Government's lack of money. ASUU had announced a four-week strike following the failure of the government to honour some of its long-standing demands. Ngige said the implementation of most of the union's demands were in progress. The meeting mandated a joint committee of ASUU, the National Universities Commission and the National Information Technology Development Agency to conduct an integrity test on the platform in conjunction with neutral experts. They are expected to conclude the test by March 8 and work on it within six weeks. If the Federal Government is in arrears on any tranche, the finance minister will look for money to pay, even though the Federal Government does not have money.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said his Finance counterpart, Zainab Ahmed, will find means to pay the earned allowances to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) due to the Federal Government's lack of money. ASUU had announced a four-week strike following the failure of the government to honour some of its long-standing demands. Ngige said the implementation of most of the union's demands were in progress. The meeting mandated a joint committee of ASUU, the National Universities Commission and the National Information Technology Development Agency to conduct an integrity test on the platform in conjunction with neutral experts. They are expected to conclude the test by March 8 and work on it within six weeks. If the Federal Government is in arrears on any tranche, the finance minister will look for money to pay, even though the Federal Government does not have money.