ASUU Strike Update:We don't have money to pay them-finance minister

On Tuesday, the meeting between striking university lecturers and the federal government was not fruitfull and ASUU has vowed not to call off the seven weeks old strike until the government implements the 2009 agreement it had with the lecturers, while the government said it wants some part of the agreement renegotiated. Meanwhile, The meeting was attended for the first time by the Minister of Finance, Ngozi And she said that; the government has no resources to meet the union demands. In her statement:" At present, ASUU wants government to pay N92 billion in extra allowances when the resources are not there and when we are working to integrate past increases in pensions.  The country is still suffering from the effect of the 2010 increase in salary. Do we want to get to a stage in this country that all the money we earn is used to pay salaries and allowances?  We need to make choices in this country as we are getting to the stage where recurrent expenditures take the bulk of our resources and people get paid but can do no work. She futher stated that: if the demands of the university lecturers are met and “we continue to pay them salaries and allowances we will not be able to provide. infrastructure in the universities.” Meanwhile, the next round of negotiation will continue on Monday. Let's pray that this issues would be resolved once and for all,so that the affected students can go back to school,this is so not cool......Haba!!! Federal Government Do something na,even if na small, at all at all na him bad pass.ejor, bikonu,dan Allah!