As the disagreement between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS) gets messier, leading to a two-week warning strike by the university teachers, Nigerians have urged the two parties to be considerate in their positions to ease the possibility of reaching a common ground. Some of them, including key stakeholders in the education sector, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), emphasised the need for government and the university lecturers to place the interest of the nation and the young students affected by the impasse, well above any other consideration.

NAN reports that while the Federal Government insists on paying salaries to only lecturers that have enrolled into the IPPIS platform, the lecturers have vowed to resist IPPIS which they opined is a fraud. In the place of the IPPIS, the lecturers have offered its option – the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) – a model it said would tackle the unwholesome issues around wages payment, which government says IPPIS will eliminate.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, while insisting on the IPPIS, warned that lecturers not enrolled into its portal would not be paid salaries, and indeed actualised the threat by withholding the lecturers’ February salaries which ASUU President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, cited as the immediate cause of the latest round of strike. The warning strike, he told newsmen last week, is to allow government more time to address the issues or risk a definite strike action.

But Nigerians have urged those concerned to remember the place of education in the growth and development of any nation and make sacrifices so as to reach common grounds that could ensure the reopening of the universities. Speaking on the face-off, Prof. Moyosore Ajao, ASUU Chairman, University of Ilorin, advised the Federal Government to continue to dialogue with the union to avert any further crisis.

“The only way forward is continuous dialogue with the union; if they discuss with us, there will eventually be resolution to all these issues,” he said. Ajao, however, warned that failure to embark on mutual dialogue would result to “anarchy”, with many casualties. Mr Adeshina Owoyele, the acting Secretary, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in Kwara, shares similar sentiments.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/strike-nigerians-urge-fg-ASUU-to-be-considerate-over-ippis.html

Yeah they should

IPPIS is a complete hogwash and colossal failure already in its first 2 months of execution.
IPPIS has not been able to pay salaries for almost 2 months of arrears, so why would reasonable Agencies agree to join the confused thing

Let them continue d strike na, me that will soon travel

University of Ilorin welcome back from the long vacation

So why exactly can't ASUU enroll in the payment platform like other fed govt workers?

They should enrol joor, nonsense and ingredients.

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So why exactly can't ASUU enroll in the payment platform like other fed govt workers?

They should enrol joor, nonsense and ingredients.

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