ASUU, Nigerian govt resume hostilities over IPPIS, governing councils

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the federal government may be heading for another showdown over an acceptable salary payment platform, as well as the constitution of new governing councils for the universities.

Last year, the Nigerian government announced it has exempted federal-owned tertiary institutions, including universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and monotechnics, from the use of the Integrated Personnel Payment System for the payment of their staff salaries and allowances.

that nothing has changed in terms of the payment platform through which they receive salaries. According to him, last month's salary was paid via IPPIS. He, however, noted that an addition of the word 'new' to IPPIS was the only change noticed when they received notification for payment of salary. He said: 'Yes, we are still being paid with IPPIS. They just added ‘new’ to it. “That's, if you get the alert, you will see 'new IPPIS'. I think it's the same platform.

exemption from IPPIS. 'No, it hasn't,' Eze said, indicating that no changes have been effected. When pressed to speak more about the matter, Eze told our correspondent to reach him at a later time. had then on every occasion accused the government of tampering with the autonomy enjoyed by the universities. It accused the office of the Head of Service of the Federation of taking over the work of the university governing councils and vice-chancellors. The university workers had also complained of irregularities in the payment of its members' emoluments, as some lecturers accused the government of shortchanging them.

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