Nigeria, Nov. 27 -- The federal government on Friday continued negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to put an end to the eight-month-old strike action.

ASUU embarked on a nationwide strike on March 23 to demand "revitalisation allowance", earned academic allowances, renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, visitation panels, among other demands.

Premium Times reported how the federal government, last Friday, made some concessions to the striking university lecturers through their union.

The government offered N65 billion to Nigerian universities to address some of the lecturers' demands.

The government also agreed to pay the lecturers their outstanding salaries using an older payment platform, GIFMIS, differen...