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Sodiq Oyeleke No fewer than 240 lecturers, including professors, at the University of Lagos, enrolled on the Integrated Personnel Payment Information System against the directive by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The PUNCH gathered that the affected lecturers have been sanctioned by the UNILAG chapter Read More …
The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has warned the federal government against accepting a salary payment platform designed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS). It said the government must not allow itself to be blackmailed Read More …
The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation on Sunday said the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System had saved over N361bn for the Federal Government despite opposition and sabotage from some quarters. Created in 2007, the IPPIS secretariat is a department under the OAGF Read More …
Soldiers By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja. There is tension in the Armed Forces of Nigeria as well as other uniformed personnel of security agencies over the non-payment of their April 2020 salaries as a result of what insiders termed ‘incapability and inexperience’ of the operators of Read More …
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has approved the payment of the February and March 2020 withheld salaries of lecturers in federal universities, who had not registered in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. A statement on Tuesday by the Minister of Labour Read More …
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Monday, March 23rd, 2020 declared an indefinite strike over the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System and the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement. The union’s National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, announced the strike at a press briefing in Read More …
The two weeks warning strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities will still continue despite government’s new proposals to the lecturers. ASUU began the strike on March 9, 2020 after disagreement with the Federal Government over Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System and Read More …
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has withdrawn its support for the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), a government payment platform, for its members across the Nigerian universities. The workers’ union, which had initially supported the initiative, said Read More …
Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Thursday’s meeting between the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Abuja was adjourned, with the Federal Government proposing a merger of the IPPIS and ASUU salary payment system. Read More …
The Academic Staff Union of Universities will this week decide whether or not to call upon its members to proceed on a nationwide strike following the decision of the Federal Government to stop salaries of lecturers who have not enrolled in the Integrated Payroll and Read More …