BREAKING: FG, ASUU To Meet To End Strike

FG will resume meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday in order to put an end to the prolonged strike.

OnyxNews Nigeria reports that the Ministry of Labour and Employment revealed this on Wednesday night.

The parley is expected to address various pending issues, including the contentious payment platform preferred by the union.

This online news platform understands that ASUU had rejected the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System used by the Federal government in paying workers’ salaries instead, developed the University Transparency and Accountability Solution which is presently undergoing test-run by the National Information Technology Development Agency.

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union had also proposed the University General and Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System in place of the IPPIS.

Their action followed the complaints against the IPPIS which reportedly caused salary delays and shortchanged the university workers.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment spokesman, Charles Akpan, disclosed in a text message on Wednesday that the dialogue with the ASUU leaders would hold at the minister’s conference hall.

The government said it had agreed to pay N30 billion Earned Academic Allowance, N20b for the revitalization of the education sector and the arrears of salaries to the university teachers, adding that the only outstanding issue was the disagreement over the payment platform.

But ASUU maintained that the government is yet to meet its demands, adding that the decision of the eight-month strike was not seen.