President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has accepted the plan from the Minister of Training, Dr Tunji Alausa, to resolve a few of the lingering points between the Federal Authorities and college lecturers countrywide.
Particularly, the Minister’s proposal to clear the overdue Earned Educational Allowances (EAA) owed to educational and non-academic employees of federal universities has obtained the nod of the President and the disbursement has since commenced, fulfilling a promise made by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration.
Within the first disbursement, N50 billion has now been paid to the schools, and lecturers have began receiving their allowances.
The fee, which comes after virtually 20 years of agitation and unmet guarantees, is being broadly celebrated as a turning level in government-labour relations in Nigeria’s tertiary training system.
Talking in a press release broadly circulated amongst academia and stakeholders, Prof. Yemi Oke, a revered educational from the School of Regulation on the College of Lagos, recommended the Tinubu administration for preserving a promise many believed would by no means be fulfilled.
“The actual concern right here is just not the quantum or the sum. It’s the thoughtfulness, sincerity, and integrity of fulfilling a promise that was not even made by him, however which he took private duty to settle,” he mentioned.
Recall that the Federal Authorities’s intervention was first introduced by the Minister of Training, Dr Tunji Alausa, on April 23, 2025. He revealed that ₦50 billion had been launched to settle EAA owed to college employees, describing the transfer as “a reaffirmation of President Tinubu’s perception within the capability of Nigerian youths and the invaluable position that educational and non-academic employees play in nurturing them.”
