By Godwin Agia, Jalingo
The Taraba State Governor, Dr Agbu Kefas has approved additional N300 million to the Taraba State University Jalingo.
The State commissioner for tertiary education, Dr Mike Dio Jen made the position know while interacting with newsmen in Jalingo on Monday.
According to the Commissioner, Dr. Agbu noted that the additional N300 million is in addition to the previous N200 million he earlier approved last week totaling N500 million and pleaded with Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) to call off strike to enable the institution resume activities.
Dr. Mike explained that, “The governor inherited the salaries of about two years and Earned Academic Allowance and Administrative Allowance for the non-academic staff amounting to over four billions (4,000,000,000).
“On the 12/3/2026, the governor after meeting with the union leaders approved the sum of over N3billion and immediately gave approval for N200,000,000 be released to them, and assured ASUU that starting from April N100,000,000 monthly will be released to settle the backlog of the demands of this union.
“In assumption of office he assured them that he was going to pay and the government paid over one billion N1,000,000,000 for now, and we entered in to an agreement with them that contains other demands that bother the welfare of Academy and non-academy staff ranging from the issue of lack of promotion for academy staff, nonpayment of salary and their promotion areas.”
