The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, says there is ‘absolutely nothing’ stopping lecturers from returning to the classrooms ‘tomorrow’.

According to him, the Federal Government has done all that it ought to do for the striking lecturers to return to the classrooms.

The minister, who spoke on Tuesday evening while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, said there was no truth that the government has not paid members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in eight months.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that on March 23,2020, ASUU declared a “total and indefinite strike” over the failure of the Federal Government to keep to the 2019 Memorandum of Action and over the lingering crisis on the controversial Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.

The union had brought forward five contentious issues in the 2019 MoA which are; revitalisation fund for universities, outstanding earned academic allowances, renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, proliferation of universities, particularly by state governments and establishment of visitation panels to universities.

The IPPIS crisis had joined in around October 2019, after the union accused some vice-chancellors of forcing its members to enrol on the IPPIS platform.

ASUU has also insisted on having an alternative model to IPPIS, called the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, which it urged the Federal Government to adopt for the universities.

But speaking on Tuesday night, Nwajiuba, “I have not said there is no way the government will not ever have a different application. But I am saying this is what we have now. The government will continually improve its service. If UTAS, as we go ahead, becomes even a better platform for everybody and they offer it free to government, of course, we are a responsive government, we will simply migrate to it.”

Source: https://punchng.com/nothing-stops-lecturers-from-resuming-tomorrow-minister/?amp=1

this is pure madness

Minister are you and your colleagues been paid thru the IPPIS

Let FG just embrace the use of UTAS,after all its free

Then be ready to go to their houses and drag all of them to school

Fahdiga:
Then be ready to go to their houses and drag all of them to school

Government of the selfish

I hope so.. because I pity the final year students. That's why private University still remains the best but fees is hell.. especially the one that was build with people's offering and tithes