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Ratzin:
NMWA

I called the IPPIS staff call center on Friday concerning our NMWA. I was told that they are in a better position to answer the question. Instead, they referred me to my institutional IPPIS desk officer for information concerning that.

toivar:
A real pity. On top of all of these, SSANU want to go on strike cos they want thier minimum wage arrears and earned allowance since ASUU Don collect thier own and even if ASUU share small give them, they still want thier own. U can imagine the confusion in the system. Don't worry once they pay us EA maybe this week after all thier argument, I will tell u how much I earned.

I understand how you feel. It's well!

toivar:
Yes o bro. For Instance I'm our school today,
ASUU already got theirs but NAT want a larger share of the balance money ASUU gave us. In fact it almost came to throwing of blows and fist in VCO. SSANU and NASU no gree say make NAT take lion share of the balance from ASUU. NAT say Na them deserve the hazard allowance more cos they are at risk more. So the situation is causing tension here in the school.

What a pity?

toivar:
OK thanks for the info

My brother, you are right about the comment concerning EAA. If ASUU is not very careful, this may end creating more division.

IgiveLadiesBj:
Via a PDF wizzynuru sent to me. If you need it drop your email ..

I'm interested in the PDF file. kutefarm@gmail.com

toivar:
If they leave the disbursement of these funds for each universities, there will be issues with payments cos top university people will start cutting from EA especially of non academic staff. It's a normal thing for them.

But BUK has disbursed to her staff.

ojikeebere12:
The list of Universities in this document is not complete. What of the other pages? Some Universities are not on the list. Kindly post the remaining pages if you have it or if you don't kindly help get for the benefit of all.

But I made it clear that the document is incomplete. If I had the remaining documents, I would've uploaded them. I'm equally looking for the remaining documents same as you.

7victor:
Please is it only for universities?

Do you know whether it involves polytechnics and colleges of education.

I don't know about polytechnics. Below is a document containing the amount that was distributed to each university. The document is incomplete.

lecturer50:
Please how do you know that they have received?h

I don't mean the money has been paid directly into individual's ( lecturers) account but into various university's account for onward distribution into individual's account.

Ratzin:
Is this information verified if so what year does the payment start from .. thanks

He's right. Other universities have received theirs but yet to pay.

DEmejioba1:
I got married in 2018,since then I have been battling with some unimaginable experiences with my wife even when I thought I married to a religious lady.

To cut the story short,

Prior to our marriage, things was not so good enough for me but because of age consideration of both of us we decided to wed with the help of our families.

The first thing that happened which caught me thinking afterward was that during our make up to wedding,my wife insisted that she's receiving 50k dowry which she knew I wouldn't be able to get it just shortly before the wedding. I told her that there is no way I could afford it then that she should reduce it may be to 20k, she said I should not worry that things will be sorted out. A day to the wedding she told me that when it's segment for dowry collection that she would pronounce that she had collected it. I said no problem. Since then I have not been able to pay it because she wants full cash. Now, any slide misunderstanding she refers to it.

Secondly, immediately after the marriage,I was left with 60k which I thought we would manage to get a room and a parlour apartment for a start, just to do according to my pocket in my present rent house. But my wife insisted that we should let 2 bedroom flat at 100k but knowing fully that my source of income would not maintain it couple with other obligations that I would be discharging. She said, she would lend me 40k.
Thank God I was able to pay her the money. But still thinking over wasteful of almost 50k,while 150k can secure a land for bulding house in my area.

Thirdly, few months after our marriage. We were having misunderstanding and I carelessly said if the marriage can not work it better we go our separate ways, my wife holds on this statement and continue saying that she just need me to say it twice more and the marriage is over.

But I used to think over all these with other ones that I cant write, then, I ask myself if truly she loves me or may be am with wrong person.

What is your thought about this?

My brother, uwa bu ofu mbia. Meaning our stay on this earth is just once, so make maximum use of it. Your wife seems to be taking advantage of your vulnerability. Do not allow anyone to push you around. There is nothing wrong in your wife lending money to you. But do make sure to pay back at your convenient time. Remember at your CONVENIENT TIME. Use dialogue to iron out your differences but if she still insist on using your vulnerability to blackmail, exploit or take advantage of you. Then it's time you put your foot down as a man. If she truly loves you, she'll mellow down and understand its no longer business as usual. But if she still insist? My brother, that woman wasn't meant for you. It's time to lock up and say goodbye for your sanity. Good luck!

FAAC: Nigeria’s tiers of government receive N619bn for December 2020



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WITHIN two weeks of the conditional suspension of the nine-month strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Federal Government has stuck to her notoriety of flouting agreements willingly reached with the intellectual union.

As intellectuals, the union was wise when it said the strike would be ‘conditionally suspended’ and would be reactivated should the Federal Government renege.

As at December 31, 2020, the Federal Government failed to fulfil three agreements reached with the union. One, the Federal Government promised to release N40billion Earned Academic/Earned Allowances to offset part of the outstanding claims of the members of all registered Trade Union in the Universities on or before December 31, 2020 but it did not.

Two, lecturers received only two months salaries out of six months (including December 2020 salaries) owed lecturers. Not all lecturers were even paid the two months. In the University of Ibadan for example, a list of over 120 lecturers who did not receive payments for the two months is being compiled.

In some other universities, some have not received anything since February 2020! Three, payment of deducted check-off dues of the union ought to start on or before December 31, 2020 as promised but the Federal Government also failed to deliver! It is because of these early breaches that this piece brings the public into the contents of the agreement Federal Government signed with ASUU before the conditional suspension of the strike on December 24, 2020.

I show how the bulk of Federal Government’s agreement with ASUU was 98 per cent of promise notes with two percent demands met as against the claim by the Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige that 98 per cent percent of ASUU demands had been met while only two percent were promise notes.

With regards to the funding for the revitalisation of public universities, government promised to pay public funded universities (not ASUU) N30 billion on or before January 31, 2021 as part of one tranche of an expected N220 billion government supposed to pay as a sign that they are still committed to implementing the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Union in 2013.

Recall that Federal Government inaugurated needs assessment committees to assess the level of decay in publicly funded varsities in 2012 and come up with what it will take to reposition it to attain global standards.

The assessment was undertaken in 74 (37 federal and 37 states) public funded universities. Federal Government committee recommended that a total of N1.3 trillion would be needed to make Nigerian universities close to world standards. They agreed it will be paid between 2014 and 2018.

That is, N200billion in 2014 and N220billion in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Former President Goodluck Jonathan was the only government that paid the first tranche of N200billion in 2014.

However, since assuming office in 2015, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari government has been consistent in reducing budgetary allocation to education and did nothing with the agreement until another strike in 2019 when the Muhammadu Buhari paid N20 billion (instead of N220billion for 2015) to revitalise public varsities as a show of commitment to the agreement.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s government promised to pay N55billion each quarter but failed woefully to do this until another strike in 2020. Buhari’s government is now planning a committee that will meet by the end of February 2021 to “work out implementable schedule for the payment of the balance of N170 billion”.

Note that the payment ought to have lapsed in 2018 if we had responsible government. If that had been done, things would have improved and children of the masses who populate public varsities would have had opportunity to learn like human beings while lecturers would have been teaching in research-friendly environments. Unfortunately, with the present characters in leadership, they will have to wait a little longer.

In relation to withheld lecturers’ salaries, the Federal Government promised to pay lecturers who had not enrolled in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, in instalments starting in December 2020 and ending on January 31, 2021.

Many universities have updated their lists with the office of the Accountant General of the Federation as agreed and they are waiting to get their salaries. The National Universities Commission, NUC, and Federal Ministry of Education reported that the process of mainstreaming the Earned Academic Allowances into the national budget had been concluded and sent to the National Assembly who agreed to include it “provided the amount involved is sent in as quickly as possible by the Federal Ministry of Education”.

ASUU leadership cannot afford to sleep now and needs to track this in the signed 2021 budget to be sure this has been done. On the reconstitution of a committee for the renegotiation of 2009 agreements, the committee was inaugurated on December 2, 2020 and has eight weeks to conclude negotiations. Government has also promised to implement the negotiated position without delay.

With regards to the University Transparency and Accountability Solutions, UTAS, proposed by ASUU as appropriate to capture the peculiarities of the University System, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, promised to follow up on the testing process and “ensure deployment of the UTAS for the payment of salaries of staff of universities.” When UTAS will be deployed would be decided at a meeting to be convened at the end of February this year.

Above are the promise notes that made ASUU to suspend the strike conditionally. Of course, the union has threatened to down tools should government renege on the understanding it reached with the union.

ASUU members are ready to return to teach (because they have been doing their researches and rendering community services while the strike lasted) but not in elated spirit as they experience early breaches in the truce. It is left to President Muhammadu Buhari to prove he is trustworthy and keep his side of the truce.

Emerging issues are: How will lectures be delivered in our congested lecture rooms with the threat of a new variant of COVID-19 that is more contagious and deadly? Where will water for hand washing come from when many public varsities don’t have functional water supply to even keep a clean toilet? Where will sanitisers as social responsibility of government come from apart from telling people to take responsibility?

Has government inserted money in the budget to fund migration from the face-to-face to online teaching as a response to COVID-19? Government owns her varsities and ought to be responsible and invest in the future of her future generations, but with dereliction to her duties to give Nigerians sound and qualitative education, ASUU’s altruism has made it a duty to hold government accountable and make her responsible.

It is sad that the same government that finds it hard to provide quality education to law-abiding children is happy funding terrorists’ education abroad. Early breaches in the covenant with ASUU are not signs of good omen and it will be sad if this government that mounted leadership on change mantra cannot allow positive change in education to begin with it by make up for breaches. A stitch in time saves nine.

Dr. Tade, a sociologist, wrote via dotad2003@yahoo.com



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Please let's desist from sharing information that we are not sure of.

kay0195:
New minimum wage arrears to start dropping tomorrow..... From a reliable source.... FINALLY......

How reliable is your source of information?

Kingfish542:
its aye not aiye....it stands for African youth empowerment, so I heard

also by southwest stronghold I believe you mean ondo,Oyo and maybe osun, because any other southwest state I dont think can be considered an eiye stronghold especially lagos

Correction noted!

Shakathezulu1:
Bros the Koko be say,every brotherhood dey fight to remain the dominant faction. Ntn like na Aye get Benin,na TG get South-west.
All this clash na just to claim dominance.
Point of correction, it's Aye not Aiye

Correction noted!

Shakathezulu1:
My man, settle down well and read,wetin u type.
Cuz I yam not understanding.
So are you saying Cultism na tribal something or what. Bro wake up.

I think what he was trying to point out is that the Ayes in Benin see Benin as their stronghold while south west remains the stronghold of eiye. It's therefore an insult to them (aye) for eiye to flex muscle with them in their 'stronghold' (Benin). Therefore aye conf. will not rest until eiye is pursued out from Benin to South west (Yoruba dominated area). My opinion.

REJOINDER TO THE ASUU-UNILAG RESOLUTION OF 29TH DECEMBER, 2020 ON IPPIS REGISTRATION PUBLISHED IN THE NIGERIAN LAWYERS OF 1ST JANUARY, 2021
 
My attention has been drawn to the publication of The Nigerian Lawyers online publication of 1st January, 2021 titled “ [Full List] ASUU-UNILAG Sanctions 240 Lecturers Who Enrolled in IPPIS” in which the ASUU has by its resolution dated 20th December, 2020 published libellous issues concerning my registration on IPISS platform as directed by the Federal Government of Nigeria (the employer) and the purported resolution thereof.
 
I am not given to comment on University of Lagos politics or union activities but am on this occasion constrained to make my view public. Firstly, I would not have commented but for the libellous statements and innuendos contained in the said publication. The publication tends to portray me and other staff who have registered as dissidents, irresponsible and disloyal persons in the eyes of the general public and therefore unfit for our callings. As a Professor of Law and Legal Practitioner of both local and international repute, I am aware of the immense damage that this publication has done and will do to my reputation home and abroad and I have forwarded the publication to my Solicitors to take necessary legal action to protect my name hence I reserve my comments on legal rights accrued to me from such malicious publication leaving the duty to my Solicitors to pursue.
 
However, it must be pointed out that the action of the Union should not be taken lightly given the breach of privacy and fundamental human rights to fair hearing enshrined in our Constitution. Was the action of the Union guided by the Constitution of the Union itself, I doubt!
 
For the avoidance of doubt, membership of any union is voluntary and no entity under the 1999 Constitution of the Nigeria (no matter the blackmail) can force any member to belong to an association, ASUU inclusive. (whether trade union or not). The leadership of ASUU also need to be reminded that its action calling for disobedience of lawful instruction from an employer can lead to termination of appointment in case the Union is unaware of this. Our law reports are replete with several legal authorities in this regard.  More fundamentally, the right of any staff of University of Lagos to aspire to any position of authority within and outside the University is not governed by the Union Rules rather by the written law, guidelines and procedure prescribed by law. 
 
Beyond that, the resolution speaks volume of the leadership of the union and call for soul-searching. Where were ASUU-UNILAG leadership when members are being denied promotion based on non-existing and unwritten rules? Does it lie in the mouth of ASUU-UNILAG leadership to punish members without fair hearing when the so-called leaders are being considered for promotion and interviewed during the same ASUU strike? Where lies the justice and integrity of the leadership of the same ASUU-Unilag publicly perceived as compromised and accused of financial gratification? Those who leave in glass house must by conventional wisdom learn never to throw stones.
 
It is my belief that ASUU will toe the path of honour to retrieve its threats as contained in the alleged resolution to avert unnecessary friction and lacuna that breed no good omen to the Union’s struggle. Nobody has monopoly of threats and mischiefs. Obafemi Awolowo University and University of Ilorin is a case study and I hope that the unionism in University of Lagos will not go the same way. Time will tell. To be fore warned is to be fore harmed.
 
I stop for now.
 
Professor Oludayo Gabriel Amokaye
Department of Private and Property Law,
University of Lagos.
Akoka.
 
2nd January, 2021.

Do you know that Yul Edochie's wife is from Ebonyi precisely IZZI. He married from Enigwe 's family.

gamegear:
But why use an account that you know is on negative balance as your salary account for the company in the first place?.

I smell what is not true (lies)

He may be right. Some financial institutions cannot give you loan if the account submitted to them is not a salary account.

mustyy:
Yes alert is dropping, unimaid, GT BANK
I received additional 9k on top, any explanation? Because it cannot be new minimum wage areas.

It could be increment. Are you due for promotion?

Mr Chika Nwoba was until recently the spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress in Ebonyi State. He tells EDWARD NNACHI why he resigned his appointment immediately Governor David Umahi showed interest in joining the party, among other issues

Why did you leave the APC when the governor joined the party?

Well, I thank the party for finding me worthy to speak for her at the state level. I was elected the state publicity secretary when I was almost 27 years old. That was in 2018. I am 29 years old now. I am using this opportunity to extend once again my profound gratitude to the party and those who worked very hard to ensure I was elected. As you know, it is very hard to market APC in the South-East. The party is apparently loathed and loathed dispassionately in the South-East. To worsen matters, the party through the presidency has refused to carry the people of the South-East along so as to erase that feeling of exclusion from the mind of the average South Easterner. Where do you start from; is it the lopsided appointments, the non-appointment of any South Eastern person into the security architecture of the country; appointments into less important offices; exclusion of the zone from infrastructure benefits; over-militarisation of the zone just to intimidate and exploit our people? The one that got me really angry and which I publicly condemned was when the Federal Government wanted to take a loan from China. When the graph of the ratios of benefits by the different geopolitical zones of the country was plotted, the South-East had nil. A debt we could have partaken in its repayment process? It’s the greatest evil plot against our people in recent times. It could shock you to learn that for the two years and a half I held sway as the publicity secretary, I never received a salary. I did everything that I did through personal funding. What other party in power does that? A good number of the party’s stakeholders in the state were on the payroll of the governor when he was in PDP before, during and after the 2019 general elections.

Are you sure about these?

I knew all these things. I complained, but those concerned never listened. We lost out completely. Immediately after the governor’s inauguration for his second term, he began to appoint loyalists of these APC stalwarts into positions of trust. What does this suggest to you? I resigned mainly due to the transfiguration of Governor David Umahi into the APC. I have always rebuked his style of governance. He’s more of a mercantile politician than the leader he is expected to be. I wrote to him several times to change some of his numerous anti-people policies and programmes in the interest of democracy. He never did. Leadership is different from daily politicking. Our people deserve good leadership, not politics when it’s not the time to play it. I have always advocated for good leadership and everyone knows me for that in Ebonyi. So, it could have been a great disservice jubilating over his defection into my party. That’s why I resigned from my position. I have resigned and it’s irreversible.

Are you apprehensive that some interests opposed to your defection from the APC after the governor joined the party might come after you?

You would recall that some miscreants working with the state government attacked me in my house in Abakaliki in March 2018 and I had machete cuts all over my body. I had just left the government as head of its Social Media Office in the Government House. What was my offence? I said I wasn’t working again after learning that deceit and propaganda were the oil lubricating the administration. I am known for uprightness and justice; I don’t go where lies and intimidation reign supreme over transparency. So, I am used to their battery. They have inflicted serious injuries on me. I am used to their attacks. The public should understand that there is military rulership in Ebonyi State under Governor Umahi. However, I am not scared. He had on several occasions lambasted the APC. He should not attack me for the singular reason that I have left the APC, a party he had repeatedly called unprintable names alongside its stakeholders in Ebonyi. I am not afraid of their attacks should there be plans for my attack for the third time. I am used to such an outing.

Would you know why the PDP has yet to zone the 2023 Presidency to South-East in line with Umahi’s demand?

It is laughable hearing Umahi decried injustice in the PDP. Has he practised justice and equity as a governor? He was PDP state chairman; deputy governor and now a two-term governor. Did APC make him governor? All of a sudden, he has realised that PDP doesn’t mean well for the South-East? What a deceptive outing! Immediately he assumed office as governor in 2015, what did he do? He made his elder brother traditional ruler of Uburu Community against all established protocols. His people wailed, but did he care? What injustice could be worse than what he did? He made his immediate younger brother, Austin Umahi, South-East vice chairman of the PDP against the party’s choice candidate, Ali Odefa, from the same place with him. Security men were even sent to pummel him at the venue of the election. As if that wasn’t enough, he made another brother of his, Mr Maxwell Umahi, deputy chairman of the party in Ebonyi State. Was that equity at work? Who is deceiving who here? PDP has yet to zone its presidential ticket to anywhere. Why is he so desperate to have the party zone its presidential ticket to the South-East for his benefit?

Do you think he was desperate
Should we be talking about the zoning of 2023 election tickets in 2020? Has the APC that he joined zoned its presidential ticket to the South-East? Can they ever do that? What has the APC done differently than the PDP for the people of the South-East since 2015? Can they ever do anything differently for the South-East? Do they even know if the South-East exists? Let me tell you, we know why he joined the APC, and it’s not about advocating for the presidency of Nigeria to be zoned to the South-East. We are not kids. He thinks that as an APC governor, he could get a soft landing. He is also afraid that with the apparent anti-party activities he has committed, PDP would disappoint him when he would be seeking to install a successor in 2023. He doesn’t love the people of the South-East more than anyone else. He hasn’t shown such interest. As chairman of the South-East Governors Forum, what has he done differently as to show that he thinks about South-East first? If anybody should berate the PDP, it’s absolutely not Governor Umahi. He should have allowed another person to do so. When you live in a glasshouse, it’s imperative that you don’t cast stones. Umahi lives in a glasshouse and it’s ignorant of him to throw stones. He should have waited for some time to know what the PDP would do about its presidential ticket. We are faced with more important issues now than crying wolf when there is no basis for that. I am not saying that the South-East should not be given the presidential ticket for the 2023 elections; but the timing is significant. He has always had a parley with the APC. It’s a pregnancy that ought not to have been covered. But I am happy that he has finally quit the PDP. He did not do any good for the party by virtue of his implausible antagonism of the party that has made him and many others in the South-East. Now that he has officially defected to his dream party, could he please stop meddling in the affairs of the PDP in Ebonyi State? Trying to destroy the party through known surrogacy is not good for him. The party is too big for his infantile machinations. He defected with no single NASS member from Ebonyi. He couldn’t woo all the members of the state Assembly to his side. What does this tell you, he’s not on the ground? He’s not carrying everyone along. The party in Ebonyi is full and robust. I have been the publicity secretary of the APC in Ebonyi. The APC in Ebonyi is a house divided against itself in many parts. His coming has further divided the party. I learnt that some of them have begun to head to court over injustice by him. This is the man wailing about injustice. It’s laughable. On an hourly basis, he loses his appointees to the PDP. Why are they running from him; maybe because he’s a man of equity and justice? He is upright and diligent in the service of leadership.

But the governor said there was injustice in the PDP.

Ask him to define injustice. He is himself an architect of injustice. He should show us how to go about exemplifying justice. To come to equity, you have to come with your hands clean.

Now that you have left the APC, where are you headed?

I have since joined the PDP. Recall I was in PDP earlier. I left the PDP because of his draconian style of governance. Many people did likewise. Since he’s joined APC, it’s only wise that we leave him in the APC for the PDP. It’s a prayer answered. PDP is a party operating on democratic ideals. Unlike the APC that epitomises all manner of ills you could think of. PDP has its own pitfalls though but it’s far lesser a poison. APC is the real and apparent poison. I am not saying this because I have left the party for the PDP; I have always decried the well-intended misgovernment of Nigeria by the APC even when I was still its spokesperson in Ebonyi State. That was why the only NASS member the party has in the state, Mr Chinedu Ogah, took me to court. I practise what I preach. The PDP in Ekpelu Ward of Ikwo Local Government Area where I come from had three days ago received me with fanfare. I am coming into the party with many other APC members including the party’s chairman in Ekpelu, Mr Sunday Eze. It’s a homecoming. I’m not strange to the PDP. Before my father died in 2008, he used to be a known PDP leader in Ekpelu. He did a lot of good things for the party. He even donated one of his structures for the party. So, I am in PDP and a force to reckon with in the party even as a 29-year-old man. During the 2019 presidential and NASS polls, all the polling stations in my ward were captured by the APC. So, this time round, it’s for the PDP and there are no two ways to it.

https://punchng.com/umahis-complaints-about-injustice-in-pdp-laughable-nwoba-former-apc-spokesperson/?fbclid=IwAR0UU7IcnZzddsLigTt6p8dsf3BWq50vv7ugybSI087B_3iW2VdBbfZNmwk

Uptill this moment, some lecturers (non-compliant) are yet to receive their two months salaries. You see why ASUU was reluctant to suspend the strike. You can't trust the Nigerian government. A whole lot of families may likely spend the festive season without money in their pocket. The funny thing about the suspension is that so many landlords are beginning to demand for their house rents. Afterall the news is all over the media that universities have been paid their two months arrears.

Sunmoluvic:
Lol, your source
No source, I checked every credible news outlet, non has the news
Fake news, stop it

It's not fake. There's an emergency ASUU congress currently going on. We pray and hope the outcome of the meeting will be positive.

The man be like "enough! I cannot come kill myself ".

R2bees:
Since the one they received this month is lesser than that of Nov, i seriously doubt arrears and bonuses are included. My only wish is that pay before 25th jare

I hope so too.

Roamin:
Minimum wage arrears?

FAAC allocation for this month.

In the mind of Oyakhilome, "are you sure I told you all these things? "

I agree with her. When it comes to family matter between a husband and wife, third parties should not get themselves involved. Parents (in this case mother) tend to be biased. This why the church made provision for marriage sponsors. They are meant to perform the work of parents to both couples and act without bias when marital issues are presented before them. If your sponsors cannot resolve it, present the matter before a Priest or Pastor. If the priest or pastor cannot resolve it, it therefore implies that you guys are incompatible.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said it has not suspended its ongoing nine-month-old strike.

Dr. Lazarus Maigoro, Chairman of the University of Jos Chapter of ASUU disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Jos.

According to him, the union has not signed any agreement with the Federal Government to call off the strike as being purported in some quarters.

He said that the Federal Government had promised to fulfill part of the agreement that led to lingering strike, but had failed to do so till date.

“It must be categorically stated here that ASUU never signed any agreement to suspend the strike but agreed on timelines for government to implement certain aspects of the issues in contention.

“For instance, one of the issues agreed was that all the six to nine months withheld salaries and check-off dues of ASUU members will be released by Dec. 9, but the date has passed and nothing was done.

“The N40 billion earned academic allowances and N30 billion funding for revitalisation will also be released by Dec. 11, among others issues, but till now, none has been fulfilled.

“The next thing is that we heard Dr Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, telling the public that ASUU agreed to suspend the strike,” he said.

Maigoro said the minister was quoted in some sections of the media that government has fulfilled its part of the agreement reached to enable the union to call off the industrial action

“He was quoted to have said government had fulfilled its part of the gentleman agreement it entered with ASUU on Nov. 27.

“He was also quoted to have claimed that payment of the public university lecturers’ salaries being withheld would require presidential clearance due to the prevailing “No work, no pay” rule.

“It is important for Nigerians to note that salaries of lecturers of federal universities, who refused to enrol in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) were stopped in February before they went on strike in March.

“It should, however, be noted too that IPPIS and salary stoppage were not among the demands of ASUU but was introduced by the government as a distraction,” he noted.

He called on relevant stakeholders, parents and even students to join ASUU in its bid to ensure a better university and education system in the country, rather than see lecturers as bad eggs.

Maigoro called on the government to show high of level of sincerity in negotiating with ASUU, insisting that using threats would further aggravate the issue. (NAN)



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