FG has met their match , something that can be against their incompetence imagine saying some lecturers were overpaid through lppis more reason ASUU should not bend to their manipulation

amaham:
Ippis is just like any other system, at the initial time, there'll be irregularities. However, as time goes on, it'll be fixed.
My lecturer friend was over-paid, but the surplus was subsequently deducted . ASUU just want to keep students at home.

if at the beginning of a newly created system it begins to developed hiccups trust me such system will die early or continually be a headache. FG is known for their incompetence imagine even MDAs enrolled in the system are being owed their salaries

9jatriot:
Points well articulated and noted.
However, you guys have been working for those 7 years and have justified your salary, striking for so long and ASUU will collect their 7 months salary not worked for, no private agency will accept that. Never.

So it is even a proxy war. The fact is, if I was FG, the arrogance of ASUU will not even allow me listen to their argument no matter how sound it may be, NASU are making noise because of ASUU stand off. If ASUU wins, your own organization will also go on strike in less than 6 months, so will doctors and many other MDAs, listening to ASUU is not inn the best interest of FG from a leadership position. Once you allow one descent, you loose control which FG does not want to do.

Unfortunately, ASUU is better in negotiations than the FG. The major weakness of the government is their lack of purpose. I will say the government doesn't know what they want from our Universities. Whenever there is a stand off, the FG don't put anything on the table as a demand from ASUU: only ASUU usually puts demand on the table of negotiations.

The major question before any meaningful power-play from the government is:What does the FG want from our Universities.
Sometimes I look at the apparent stupidity of the FG and marvel. Look at TETFUND: a successful negotiation from ASUU (to the detriment of the FG) even though the FG often renegade on the agreement.

What does the FG want from our Universities?

9jatriot:
Every statement ASUU makes has always been in how bad IPPIS is so do not blame us when IPPIS is all we hear. Unionism as practiced in this regards is done wrongly. If you do not like your work and call it slavery, you resign.
Try and work for an Indian company then you will understand the real meaning of slavery, not this one you can afford not to go to work and fellow workers will cover for you.
The worst of all of these are state Universities ASUU joining a stupid strike that does not even concern them.

Please read the extract from ASUU president interview with punch just last week below and maybe you will have more understanding of what I said.
I do not understand your definition of wrong practice of unionism. Of course union protect their interest by the way. Government has to be responsible and stop misbehaving. Look at the state of public universities in every aspect, it is terrible and is purely governments irresponsibility.

What is the update on the seven-month strike embarked on by university teachers?
Nothing has changed significantly. We have presented our issues. We started with five, and we now have six issues. These are revitalization of universities; renegotiation of 2009 agreement; visitation panels to universities; proliferation of universities, particularly by state governments and of course Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) of members.

The starting point is to say that those were outstanding issues from the memorandum of agreement signed with the government on February 7, 2019, which the government has not done anything significant to address. But since then, Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) has been elevated almost over and above these other issues earlier highlighted. Recall that it was as a result of that we engaged the government on developing an alternative to IPPIS; which we have since developed to an advanced stage. We have presented it to the minister of education and members of his team, the Senate President, and to a larger audience in the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, where all major stakeholders were represented – Ministries of Labour and Unemployment; Education, Office of the Accountant-General itself, Finance and, of course, experts from the Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), the body that regulates information technology development in the country.

We have done all those presentations and the general impression was that our alternative, called University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), is superior to IPPIS. However, because of the need to fulfill the requirement of integrity test, we were expected to follow up on that.

We believed that with all that we have done, the government has no reason to withhold salaries of our members, which in some cases, are five months now, and in some other cases, as many as eight or nine months, including their EAA, salaries and check-off dues of our union. As long as they continue to withhold the salaries of our members, they are not paving way for smooth resolution of the crisis. We are at that point where we need to resolve the issue of mode of payment for what the government owes our members. We feel that some agents of the government could be doing this to escalate the crisis, even though the government has made promises about the five issues we raised, we are yet to see them activated.

If ippis is so good for us why are nnpc, firs, custom and other lucrative MDGs not in it?