The Federal Government of Nigeria said it has met all the demands made by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba stated this on Monday while reacting to the two-month extension of the strike embarked upon by the academic union.

Nwajiuba insisted that the federal government had met all of the demands of the union.

He added that all earned allowances, as well as revitalization funds, had been released.

“ASUU announced and we met and everything that they have demanded, we have done all of them including the earned allowances and the revitalization fund; they choose to extend it for two months maybe,” he said.

The universities union after the expiration of its initial one-month strike on March 14, declared a roll overstrike for another two months.

The strike, according to the union, was due to the failure of the government to implement the agreement the federal government signed with the union in 2009.

ASUU had also accused the federal government of working against the deployment of the UTAS, a payment platform designed by ASUU to replace the IPPIS payment system.