The Federal Government has approved the release of N30 billion earned academic allowance to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU). The money is part of the Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) to the union. The Government will pay the money in tranches between May 2021 and January 2022. As part of the concession to end the seven-month strike, the government also promised to spend N20bn on the revitalisation of the education sector. These agreements were arrive at during the meeting between the Federal Government and the academic staff union leadership on Thursday. At the yesterday’s meeting, the body of lecturers, insisted that the government should pay their outstanding salaries through GIFMIS before full implementation of University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, but the government insisted on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS.