Nigeria, Aug. 22 -- Just like it rejected the students' loan scheme introduced by the administration of President Bola Tinubu, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the government's newly introduced Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund (TISSF), a loan scheme for lecturers and other university staff.

In a statement by its president, Christopher Piwuna, a professor, ASUU noted that its members are already neck-deep in debt and do not need additional loans but a fix for their earnings as contained in the draft renegotiated with the government.

"NEC considered this policy of the government and decisively rejected the proposition requesting ASUU to write a letter for its members to access the loan," the statement s...