The Federal Government on Thursday, March 12th, 2020 gave the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) conditions for integrating the University Transparency Accountability Solution into the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

Recall that on Monday, March 9th, 2020, the ASUU declared a two-week warning strike against government’s non-payment of salaries of lecturers not yet enrolled in the IPPIS. And on Tuesday, March 10th, the Federal House of Representatives resolved to intervene in the matter.

Immediately after the four-hour meeting, The Labour and Employment Minister, Chris Ngige told newsmen that:

We’ve held very fulfilling discussions and where necessary, we debated. We put forward our points from the government side and the union side too.

ASUU has a platform they developed called UTAS, we’ve had some preliminary agreement on what is to be done to accommodate the two system and ASUU are now to get back to their members, consult the executive committee first and the generality of their members.

They can agree on the modus of operandi of trying to key into the IPPIS system. The two parties are expected to reconvene on Monday or Tuesday depending on when the university lecturers are ready.

ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, told journalists that ASUU’s National Executive Committee would meet to review the conditions set for the integration of University Transparency Accountability Solution into IPPIS.

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