The industrial harmony in the nation’s university system, especially in universities owned by the Federal Government, FG, is being threatened by the resolve of the FG to enroll university workers in its Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System, IPPIS. It is a centralised system of payment of all FG’s workers from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation. Although most federal workers have been on the payment system, university workers are the ones yet to be put on board.

THE Vice Chancellor, Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogwa, Esan West local government area of Edo State, Professor Ben Aigbokhan, yesterday, revealed that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has been one of the major obstacles depriving private universities from benefitting from capital projects and research grants from the Tertiary Education Fund, TERTFund.

Wants varsity autonomy preserved By Adesina Wahab The Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has faulted the Federal Government on its planned inclusion of universities in the implementation of its Integrated Payroll Payment Information System, IPPIS, saying it will erode the little autonomy the universities enjoy now. This formed part of the resolutions passed at the […]

CALABAR zone of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has chided the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation  for forcing Federal Universities in the country into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, (IPPIS).

Dr Aniekan Brown, Coordinator, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Calabar Zone, has said that the association’s rejection of Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS), was not an endorsement of corruption. Brown, at a press conference on Sunday in Uyo, said that ASUU’s position was hinged on its conviction that IPPIS was “not congenial […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its proposed strike over Federal Government’s directive to enroll its members into the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS). When President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2020 budget proposal before lawmakers on Oct. 8, 2019, he vowed that Federal Government Employees not captured on the IPPIS platform […]

TOWARDS the end of the October 2019 deadline for all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, of the Federal Government to ensure their staff were enrolled in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari, the battle line is drawn between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

Few weeks ago, a new academic staff union emerged from the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which for many years, has championed the demands of academic staff in the nation’s universities. The new union, Congress of University Academics, CONUA, said it was breaking away from ASUU for a number of reasons. 

ASUU must comply with govt decision on IPPIS, says Finance Minister By Johnbosco Agbakwuru State governors, yesterday rejected the proposed plan by the Federal Government to extend the repayment period of its budget support to state government from twenty years to 30 years. The implication of the extension is that state government monthly repayment will […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Owerri on Monday rejected the plan by the Federal Government to include university workers in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).