24th April, 2018
The Enugu State Government has released over N1 billion to Enugu State University of Science and Technology for payment of all outstanding emolument to staff.
Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Luke Anike, made this known when members of the state’s House of Assembly Committee on Education paid a quarterly oversight visit to the institution in Enugu on Tuesday.
Anike said that a committee had been set up to work out the sharing formula for the payment to ensure that everybody got his or her full share in the fund.
He explained that the institution had no cause to go on strike as all arrears had been released, adding that the arrears covered academic and non-academic staff.
The vice chancellor said that the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) was constructing post-graduate buildings in the Faculty of Management Science, Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences and Faculty of Engineering.
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He said that TETFUND was also constructing the Central Science Laboratory and Information Technology Centre in the institution, adding that the projects were at 90 per cent completion.
He disclosed that the university had continued to receive its monthly subvention of N108 million from the state government.
Chairman of the committee, Mr Mathew Ugwueze, commended the management of the institution for the sanity prevailing in the school.
Ugwueze expressed satisfaction with the development in the institution, and called for closer supervision of ongoing projects.