The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the Federal Government of using the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS) to “cripple” the re-negotiation of FGN/ASUU 2009 agreement and memorandum of action. ASUU’s chairman at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Professor Rabi’u Nasiru, made this known, saying that the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) was the tool being used to achieve FG’s motive of distracting ASUU from continuing with the negotiation.

Nasiru said the failure of the OAGF to intimidate ASUU members to enroll in the IPPIS made the exercise a failure in the universities. He added: “After the FGN/ASUU 2009 agreement of 7th February, 2019, it was agreed that Visitation Panel, through which excesses of the university system are checked, would be sent to various Federal Universities by 11th March, 2019. However, these panels are yet to be constituted by the FGN despite the hue and cry about fighting corruption.

“The whole intent of the Federal Government was not to address corrupt practices in our universities, but rather to truncate our FGN/ASUU 2009 agreement, a product of collective bargaining that gave birth to TETFUND and NEEDS interventions in tertiary institutions without which our universities would have been reduced to glorified secondary schools.” The union urged the Federal Government to desist from any action that would desecrate the University’s autonomy for the sake of this and future

Nigerian generations, calling on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to come back to the negotiation table in order to save the university system from collapse.

Nigerianization:
Thunder fire ASUU

An employer has the right to decide how his or her employees will be paid. Until the universities in Nigeria becomes financially self sufficient, ASUU should key into the IPPIS platform WITHOUT DELAY...

At least, e go expose those with multiple jobs and create employment for new ones. It will also reduce the issues of cronyism in the employment of academic staff....

A lot of dullards are employed to transmit knowledge to the next generation when we all know that one cannot give what he or she doesn't have.

AAA593:

Thunder fire wetin. Do you even understand ASUU points?
IPPIS is the fact that it is a blatant violation of the concept of university autonomy. University autonomy is a global practice associated with universities all over the world and it has four main dimensions namely: academic, organisational, financial and staff autonomy. Perhaps, some little words about university autonomy would suffice. Academic autonomy simply means the university’s capacity to manage its internal academic affairs independently. Such academic issues include students’ admissions, academic content, quality assurance and the introduction of new degree programmes. Organisational autonomy has to do with the university’s ability to decide freely on issues like decision-making bodies, executive leadership, legal entities and internal academic structures. Financial autonomy s all about the university’s ability to decide freely on internal financial matters like managing its funds independently and setting its strategic aims.

All these must be added the fact that university autonomy gives absolute powers to a body called the university governing council. This body is officially recognised by the laws establishing universities in Nigeria. It is this body that is saddled with the responsibility for the control and management of university funds, employment and promotion of staff. All edicts and statues establishing universities and the nation’s constitution give full powers to the governing councils as the supreme body concerned with the day-to-day operation of the university. In the profoundest sense, university autonomy means that all powers academic, managerial and financial are vested in the governing council. All the agreements signed between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities since 1992 have shown abundantly that Nigerian universities should be allowed to operate in compliance with their enabling laws, statues, rules and regulations.

AAA593:

Thunder fire wetin. Do you even understand ASUU points?
IPPIS is the fact that it is a blatant violation of the concept of university autonomy. University autonomy is a global practice associated with universities all over the world and it has four main dimensions namely: academic, organisational, financial and staff autonomy. Perhaps, some little words about university autonomy would suffice. Academic autonomy simply means the university’s capacity to manage its internal academic affairs independently. Such academic issues include students’ admissions, academic content, quality assurance and the introduction of new degree programmes. Organisational autonomy has to do with the university’s ability to decide freely on issues like decision-making bodies, executive leadership, legal entities and internal academic structures. Financial autonomy s all about the university’s ability to decide freely on internal financial matters like managing its funds independently and setting its strategic aims.

All these must be added the fact that university autonomy gives absolute powers to a body called the university governing council. This body is officially recognised by the laws establishing universities in Nigeria. It is this body that is saddled with the responsibility for the control and management of university funds, employment and promotion of staff. All edicts and statues establishing universities and the nation’s constitution give full powers to the governing councils as the supreme body concerned with the day-to-day operation of the university. In the profoundest sense, university autonomy means that all powers academic, managerial and financial are vested in the governing council. All the agreements signed between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities since 1992 have shown abundantly that Nigerian universities should be allowed to operate in compliance with their enabling laws, statues, rules and regulations.

seunmsg:


Since ASUU members don’t want to join IPPIS like other federal workers, they should look for money to pay themselves. Henceforth, FG will no longer pay federal university lecturers that are not captured on the IPPIS platform from the consolidated revenue fund. They want financial autonomy, they will get it. FG should stop funding personnel cost of federal universities. Let the university councils go and look for money to pay them.

Nigerianization:


Thanks for the education. But how can we marry the contradiction of FINANCIAL AUTONOMY and the inability of Nigerian universities to survive independently of government funding.

seunmsg:


Since ASUU members don’t want to join IPPIS like other federal workers, they should look for money to pay themselves. Henceforth, FG will no longer pay federal university lecturers that are not captured on the IPPIS platform from the consolidated revenue fund. They want financial autonomy, they will get it. FG should stop funding personnel cost of federal universities. Let the university councils go and look for money to pay them.

Nigerianization:


Thanks for the education. But how can we marry the contradiction of FINANCIAL AUTONOMY and the inability of Nigerian universities to survive independently of government funding.

itsme01:




ASUU too dey talk abeg



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AAA593:

Thunder fire wetin. Do you even understand ASUU points?
IPPIS is the fact that it is a blatant violation of the concept of university autonomy. University autonomy is a global practice associated with universities all over the world and it has four main dimensions namely: academic, organisational, financial and staff autonomy. Perhaps, some little words about university autonomy would suffice. Academic autonomy simply means the university’s capacity to manage its internal academic affairs independently. Such academic issues include students’ admissions, academic content, quality assurance and the introduction of new degree programmes. Organisational autonomy has to do with the university’s ability to decide freely on issues like decision-making bodies, executive leadership, legal entities and internal academic structures. Financial autonomy s all about the university’s ability to decide freely on internal financial matters like managing its funds independently and setting its strategic aims.

All these must be added the fact that university autonomy gives absolute powers to a body called the university governing council. This body is officially recognised by the laws establishing universities in Nigeria. It is this body that is saddled with the responsibility for the control and management of university funds, employment and promotion of staff. All edicts and statues establishing universities and the nation’s constitution give full powers to the governing councils as the supreme body concerned with the day-to-day operation of the university. In the profoundest sense, university autonomy means that all powers academic, managerial and financial are vested in the governing council. All the agreements signed between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities since 1992 have shown abundantly that Nigerian universities should be allowed to operate in compliance with their enabling laws, statues, rules and regulations.

seunmsg:


Since ASUU members don’t want to join IPPIS like other federal workers, they should look for money to pay themselves. Henceforth, FG will no longer pay federal university lecturers that are not captured on the IPPIS platform from the consolidated revenue fund. They want financial autonomy, they will get it. FG should stop funding personnel cost of federal universities. Let the university councils go and look for money to pay them.

lobell:


Getting the money to pay is not difficult. The students will bear the brunt. The implication is that, only children of the rich can afford to pay the fees like we have in private universities. This will further deepen the divide between the rich and the poor.

lobell:


Getting the money to pay is not difficult. The students will bear the brunt. The implication is that, only children of the rich can afford to pay the fees like we have in private universities. This will further deepen the divide between the rich and the poor.

Nigerianization:
Thunder fire ASUU

An employer has the right to decide how his or her employees will be paid. Until the universities in Nigeria becomes financially self sufficient, ASUU should key into the IPPIS platform WITHOUT DELAY...

At least, e go expose those with multiple jobs and create employment for new ones. It will also reduce the issues of cronyism in the employment of academic staff....

A lot of dullards are employed to transmit knowledge to the next generation when we all know that one cannot give what he or she doesn't have.