By Ola Ajayi THE Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are set to slug it out over the implementation of the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) as the latter has directed all its members across the country to ignore a circular intended to be used for their […]

By Adesina Wahab & Elizabeth Uwandu As the enrolment of workers in federal universities into the Federal Government’s Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, kicks off across the country on Monday, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, may be the only union in the university system whose members may not enroll, checks by […]

By Ola Ajayi The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) branch, has begun a 10-day warning strike over their unpaid arrears. The Academic Staff Union of Universities in the in institution had about a fortnight ago warned that it would direct its members to down tools if the two-owner […]

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.