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edogu:
Under President Goodluck administration, there was two platforms for payment- IPPIS and GIFMIS. The later allowed the university to operate without any unnecessary intervention from the government. However, under the President Buhari's administration, the university staff were forced to ditch the GIFMIS and adopt IPPIS. Unfortnately, the IPPIS does not give the university the freedom to operate. Things like sabbatical leave which was recognised by NUC was not recognised by the system.
The university system operates a different calendar system while IPPIS calendar operates from January to December.
For instance, the university usually start their appraisal by May. Appraisal for academics are three or four stages. Departmental, faculty and by the University Vice Chancellor. However, if you are going for professorial cadre your papers need to be sent out for external assessment. By the time these appraisals must have been concluded, the university calendar must have been over. Unfortunately, IPPIS doesn't capture arrears outside this calendar especially if it has exceeded three months.
Also where there's urgent need to engage lecturers especially professors for accreditation, university may need to write IPPIS for approval which sometimes takes long before it happens.
As for the 36 billion, the money was meant to take care of the minimum wage arrears which was approved in 2019. Mind you the money was meant also for polytechnics, colleges of education and not just the university community yet not every university staff has seen theirs.
There are many more but let me stop here for now.

Okay...

ASUU should fight for all of that they find befitting to them.

You mentioned something about sabbatical leave as directed by the NUC. ASUU can fight for that

ASUU can also fight for arrears outside the school calendar, and many more.

All of it is acheivable.

Call me a buffoon, but I really do not support the idea of an employer dictating their method of payments to their employee.

Ikennablue:
instead of attacking the subject of discussion, or correcting the OP, you insulted him and still provide nothing tangible on the subject and still claim to be learned and informed.

Are they striking because they need salary increment or because of the UTAS system of payment??

They are barely talking about the salary increment. It's UTAS they keep talking about


#ENDUTAS
#ENDASUU

Jung:
36 billion was not salary arrears, Buffoon. Go back and read what was paid. And it was never part of the negotiations with the government.

Is this who wants to finish with a first class? Ha, God... Uniben is finished.

The 36 billion was for minimum wage arrears.

Let's not forget to mention that the government paid over 50 Billion in tbe month of December to avert this year's strike + they were making other plans before ASUU declared strike.

If the issue was about money, we will have resumed since a long time back. I watched the press conference on NTA (2 months ago) where ASUU chairman and Minister of labour argued about everything. At the end of day, ASUU chairman kept emphasizing on UTAS

The issue is not about money
FG has money to disburse...



ASUU wants UTAS by all means


#ENDUTAS
#ENDASUU

I was been sarcastic about yearning for 1st class though...

I just want to graduate. Sad to see people who we started together preparing to round up while I am still stuck in 400 level.

A school I know are currently planning on ending their 2022 session before the end of this month, and where are we?

Because you people are only thinking about yourselves.

Jung:
Apparently you don't know what ASUU is fighting for. Probably you are a student and you are only interested in going to school and finishing on time.

If you don't know, the little benefits you're getting from the university system was gotten via struggle by ASUU

No lecturer is earning up to 500k as salary. Most are paid less than 200k and have been earning the same salary for more than 15 years since 2008.

No good labs, no good structures, no good hostels. No funding to do anything worthwhile in the schools, yet they keep creating more.

If you don't have anything meaningful to contribute other than ranting like a selfish ignoramus, stfu and let them fight for what they deserve.

There are mothers, fathers, breadwinners, etc who are lecturers. How do you think they take care of their families? You just open your phone and type nonsense that you know absolutely nothing about, with your badly constructed sentences.

Don't be a Buffoon creating threads to antagonize you know nothing about.

I am okay with ASUU fighting for increased salary.


But since the beginning of this strike UTAS has been the main demands of ASUU.

ASUU president have said NO UTAS, NO Resumption!

You are not getting it.

The main reason why we are home is because of a payment platform which was designed by ASUU

"IPPIS was introduced to serve the purpose of centralized payment of all civil servants in the employment of the Federal Government"

Are ASUU saying the educational sector is higher than other important sectors like finance, military, health?

Leave my badly constructed sentences out of this...

HitRun:
Aunty, this your write up no get direction.

Let me direct it somewhere

#ENDUTAS
#ENDASUU

Raymondfayowole:
"To Advert" Why is the FG always reacting and not proactive. Why wait for strike to start before acting? We are here talking about 2009 agreement with so many reviews and revisions from past administration still yet, nothing to show for it. Budget for the year came with the minimum wage, why was it hard to implement? How come nothing about the accountant general came up in your writeup?

The government were making plans to release funds, and they released some funds 6 months ago...

ASUU just want this UTAS platform by fire by force

Shoodboi:
You still aren't making a point. Why is ASUU fighting? What agreements did they have with the previous and current governments? And how have both sides fulfilled their ends of the agreement?

That's the issue. The relationship between ASUU and the FG has gone beyond normal Employer-employee relationship, if it ever was, that is. Unions go up against their private employers if need be, not to talk of the government.

Ohhhhhhhh ever demanding ASUU

LadymissiIe:
I understand.
which school? course and level?

UNIBEN, Administrator, 400 level (Since September 2017)

The5DME:
The strike is going to be called-off next year.

Cc ishilove

You are not far from the truth.


ASUU is not ready to shift grounds.

They want UTAS by fire by force.

Students nationwide protest has even given them more ginger.


We need to protest against them now.

The government has done few things. They should let us resume

Voldoz:
Oga go do research the university system is not different from the other systems even the Whites use IPPIS ASUU just wants to save their a**.

It's high time we stage a protest for the government to #END_ASUU

#ENDASUU

Shoodboi:
You didn't make a single point. Government is continuous and every new government is required to honor the agreements made by the previous ones. ASUU also went on strike during GEJs tenure. They even fought him over subsidy back in 2012.

Why will an employee be dictating mode of payment to his employer? Where is it done sir?

The whole thing is so annoying...

Voldoz:
See ASUU are still going to strike if you give them everything in the national Budget. Just like FG ASUU are their own cabal

The most annoying part is that we are been kept at home because of a payment platform

LadymissiIe:
you missed your boyfriend in school abi?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I miss school environment, my course mates, and miss been on the path of acheiving my goals (Obtain my certificate with first or 2nd class honours, and get the f*CK out of the stewpid system of rigorous strike)

checkmatez:
I am not supporting anyone because it's just Great Nigerian students that are on the recieving end but also try read on accountant general 80bn fraud in relation to ippis

Even with UTAS, the people that will move funds will still move funds.

It happens everywhere; even at the lowest grassroot

They should just let us resume

Raymondfayowole:
But you agreed they paid the minimum wage arrears because of the strike right? Did you think that money came out from nowhere...The entire system is corrupt, both ASUU and FG are not saints...it's just sad that the students are recipients.

Less than 6 months ago, FG released over 50 Billion to avert ASUU strike, and they were pushing to do more before the strike came on board.

When ASUU get paid like that, they won't make comments for weeks...

For example when FG paid the last 36 billion salary arrears. It took them about 2 weeks to even acknowledge the payment

sinkhole:
reading that thing up there can make somebody vomit!
Did the author go to school at all?

I wonder if the author did?

Oh I am the author!

What do you expect from someone who's been away from school since the past 4 months and counting?

Forget about my English, I just want to go back to class. You people should stop being selfish, and try to consider us. Our mates are soaring higher than us in the academic field.

Help Us!!!

Isokoson1:
Mehn this is beyond local man logistics

Ippis Nah scam

How is it scam Oga?

Are they not getting their complete salary with IPPIS?

Are the the uniform men, IT, Healthcare, finance sector complaining about IPPIS?

WHY ASUU?

elGenius:
I always believed there is something shady about ASSU demands, because every time their demands seams different the deaper you look.
one moment they tell they are fighting for students the next another.

I am in support that UTAS should not even be considered by FG otherwise the whole idea of IPPIS will be defeated which is a single payment mechanism for civil servants.

if they feel it has issues, they should recommend a fix not
float their own.

what is to stop other sectors from coming up with their own system if ASSUs is granted.

It's not even as if all the lectures are of any use to students,
98% of lecturers either don't know/update their course or
lack teaching skills or even both.
Students do 100% of the work themselves, the only thing lecturers provide is the course syllabus.
And their excuse is always that they are there to lecture not teach.

when I take online courses from various universities, I always wonder how good Nigerian students here will be if we had these kinds of lecturers. with well-structured curriculums and lecturers that know their courses into-to.

As a student myself, I can tell that the only thing taking students to class is attendance and impromptu tests,
nothing else cos there's nothing to gain.

Stop attendance and impromptu test and how many students will bother going to class.

If ASSU care for Nigerian education system they should start by fixing it from inside.

- retire aged lecturers
-relieve the incompetent ones
-do regular lecture all supervision during lectures
-devise stringent standards for lecturers
- and many more.

Even if FG gives $500tr today, it's still the same shenanigans
and 20yrs old course materials they will still do/use.
people easily blame graduates for not knowing their course well but leave out the lecturers

Thank you for this...

Jung:
ASUU went on strike for 6 months during Jonathan's time.

Stop posting this buffoonery everywhere with your terrible writeup.

Embarrassing piece of trash.

ASUU went on 6 months strike in the year 2013 during Jonathan's time if I'm not mistaken.

That is 4 years after the agreement was made

Why did they not stick with the idea of this endless strike back then?

Why is ASUU punishing poor Nigeria students because of a stupid agreement made in 2009 (Since you want to be insultive)

Sacramento85:
Stop displaying your ignorance. UTAS is a software like ippis but UTAS encompasses all the peculiarities of the university system unlike ippis that is civil service structured. While ippis is housed in the office of the accountant general, UTAS is housed in the NUC.
Universities are universal in nature and as such gives room for sabbatical leave, adjoint staff, visiting lecturers which are world standards but are not captured under ippis. Ippis taxes the gross of university salaries including allowances which is illegal whereas UTAS taxes only the gross without the allowances.
Universities are not like the military, health , civic services and others. Moreover, are u aware that the highest pay a lecturer earns is #416000 a month, that is a professor at bar?
U don’t and won’t understand why even the non academics come up with U3PS.
Pls don’t mislead the reading public

If ASUU wants increased salaries, they should fight for that!

There's nothing wrong with IPPIS

We've been at home for four months because of IPPIS/UTAS

ASUU is the enemy!!!

This strike is likely to last a year or more

ASUU and FG has been in a heated disagreement since Feb 14.

ASUU has been able to paint the government black; especially since the uproar of students protests the past two months

On ASUU side, their salary has been seized since the month of March since FG implemented a "No work, No pay" policy.

We all know ASUU is still going to collect their payment in full after the strike has been called off.

How about we the student? We are the only ones suffering for all of this higi haga

Our house rent is lying in watse, most of us are clearly not reading; and we are going to be rushed as soon as school resumes.

Our juniors in private universities and polythecnics, and other schools are getting ahead of us.

For example when ASUU went on strike in the year 2020 during the era of coronavirus; most schools were holding virtual classes for students. Meanwhile, only 30% of the affected universities organized virtual classes for their students

We chose federal universities because they are amongst the best schools in Nigeria, we did not choose Federal university just to be going on yearly strikes


Other schools are far ahead of us, and all ASUU care about is themselves

#END_ASUU Abeg

ASUU has been on strike since the past 4 months.

ASUU wants the government to approve UTAS as their means of payment.

Here's how UTAS works;
The federal government usually pays all staffs salaries into their bank accounts.

UTAS on the other hand implies that the federal government will pay each staff salaries into the university where they lecture, and the university will then have to release the funds to their respective lecturers.[b]

ASUU are pushing for UTAS because of some of their lecturers who lecture at two or more universities; it will enable them get paid more than once.
[b]
UTAS will promote more ghost workers; and will strengthen unemployment amongst youth.

For example, we have lecturers who are over 70 who still call themselves lecturers but they barely come to class while their subordinate or junior staff do all the work.

Now imagine if that professor who's over 70 is employed in 2 or more universities. It will reduce employment rate. As we all know most of these lecturers don't like to retire.

What will be the fate of students who have plans of finishing school and becoming a lecturer someday?

Most lecturers who are rendering services at two or more universities usually come up with excuses to avoid coming to classes because they may have one or two things they want to do at their other place of work (I stand to be corrected)

Why should FG approve something that will only reduce productivity amongst lecturers?

In addition, UTAS is scam as it only favors ASUU and their members.

UTAS is clearly corruption prone, and Ghost worker friendly, and should not be accepted by tbe federal government.

Why are the military, healthy, IT, government, and other sectors not complaining about the IPPIS mode of payments if ASUU does not have something up their sleeves?

ASUU should end this baseless strike as soon as possible. We just want to go back to our classes.

Richiez, Fynestboi, olawalebabs, Lalasticlala, mynd44 seunosewa

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ASUU went on strike on February 14, putting an halt to all academic activities since the past 4 months because of an agreement made in the year 2009

Agreement should be honored (I agree)

But from my calculations, Late Musa Yard Adua was president when they made this agreement, in which Fmr president Good luck Jonathan was Vice president

Vice president Good luck Jonathan went on to succeed Yar Adua after his death....

My question is why did ASUU not push their core demands when we had a PHD holder as president?

Why did they not go on endless strike when we had someone that's well vast educationally?

Why did ASUU wait until 13 years after before pushing for their demands to be heard?

What happened to going on this endless strike when President Muhammad Buhari was running for 2nd term?


What makes them think the government will priotize their demands when they clearly have nothing to lose or gain from their endless strike?

So far the government has paid them 36 billion for their salary arrears, and have promised to look into revisitation of the Nigeria university so it can be of high standards when compared to international Universities.

The government "which has nothing to lose" has tried enough. Why has ASUU not call off the strike? They want UTAS!

Why will an employer be dictating their means of payment to their employee? (It does not make any sense as far as they are not been underpaid)

The government is paying the engineering, health, military, and other sectors through the IPPIS, and nobody is complaining except ASUU

Will talk about UTAS and why ASUU want it so badly in my next post...

Richiez, Fynestboi, olawalebabs, Lalasticlala, mynd44 seunosewa

First page please

Really?