IPPIS: 793,580 FG employees, 63% ASUU members captured —AGF
The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, said that the salary accounts of 793,580 Federal government employees and about 63 percent of members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have been captured on the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Idris disclosed this when the Senate Committee on ICT led by its Chairman, Senator Yakubu Oseni, paid an oversight visit to the Treasury House in Abuja.
IPPIS: FG directs ASUU to suspend strike
THE Federal Government, yesterday, called on the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to suspend the strike and return to the classroom to manufacture drugs for the cure of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Salaries Payment: It is your entitlement, not favour ― ASUU tells members
By Joseph Erunke – Abuja Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has told its members not to see the payment of their withheld salaries by the federal government as favour but entitlement. ASUU which also vowed to press ahead with its opposition to the deployment of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS in […]
ASUU queries FG over request of BVN
Academic Staff Union of Universities has said a request by the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris that lecturers who have been denied their salaries should submit their Biometric Verification Number (BVN) to effect the payment was illegal.
Payment of salaries: We’re hopeful government will waive BVN condition ― ASUU
By Adesina Wahab The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has said the union is hopeful of government waiving the submission of Biometric Verification Numbers, BVN, of members before their withheld February and March 2020 salaries are paid. In a telephone chat with our correspondent on Monday night, […]
ASUU rejects submission of BVN as condition for payment of withheld salaries
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the submission of Bank Verification Number (BVN) as a condition for payment of the withheld February and March salaries of university lectures. The ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, who disclosed this in a chat with journalists in Abuja Wednesday, described the condition as unacceptable. Ogunyemi said: […]
Payment of withheld salaries will lead to meaningful dialogue – ASUU
By Adesina Wahab The directive by President Muhammadu Buhari that the February and March 2020 salaries of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, withheld because of their refusal to enrol in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, be paid as soon as possible will lead to meaningful dialogue with the […]
ASUU faults FG’s proposed slash of education, health budget
By Ola Ajayi, Ibadan ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has faulted a proposal by the Federal Government to slash 50.76billion from the 111.78billion budgeted for Universal Basic Education Commission. The academic union also stated that the same proposal being planned for the healthcare would be an Ill wind that would further destroy the sector. […]
COVID-19: Edo govt lauds ASUU, 7up, others for donations
The Edo State Government has commended the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), 7up Bottling Company and Pure Flour Mills Ltd for supporting the state government’s response to check the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the state. Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., while receiving donations from the union and firms, said […]
IPPIS: We’re not stooges for VCs – ASUU
ABUJA–THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU said Wednesday that it was not a stooge for vice-chancellors in its opposition to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS.
ASUU’s insensitive strike
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, returned to its old “hobby” of indefinite strikes on Monday, March 23, 2020. This came after its two-week “warning strike” which commenced on March 9, 2020. According to the Union’s President, Biodun Ogunyemi penultimate Monday, the strike became necessary because “the Nigerian government has chosen to use hunger […]
