{"id":30406,"date":"2020-11-23T19:17:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/asuu-strike-my-children-are-in-nigerian-public-universities-unlike-lecturers-children-ngige"},"modified":"2020-11-23T19:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:17:57","slug":"asuu-strike-my-children-are-in-nigerian-public-universities-unlike-lecturers-children-ngige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/asuu-strike-my-children-are-in-nigerian-public-universities-unlike-lecturers-children-ngige","title":{"rendered":"ASUU strike: My children are in Nigerian public universities unlike lecturers\u2019 children \u2013 Ngige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has claimed he has three children in Nigerian universities.<\/p>\n<p>Ngige stated this while answering questions on Arise TV on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He also restated the Federal Government\u2019s commitment to ending the eight-month strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).<\/p>\n<p>The Minister rebuked remarks that the government was not interested in resolving the issue with university lecturers, because their children school abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Ngige said, \u201cI have three biological children in public schools. They are in public schools; they are not in private universities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike ASUU members who have most of their children in private universities, three of mine are here. So, I am a very big stakeholder in the public tertiary school system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of them have American citizenship; they can be in America but I choose them to be here with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FG has accepted ASUU\u2019s demand that lecturers be exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).<\/p>\n<p>The government also offered to increase the Earned Allowances to university staff from N30 billion to N35b and the Revitalization Fund from N20b to N25b.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has claimed he has three children in Nigerian universities. Ngige stated this while answering questions on Arise TV on Monday morning. 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