The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, is currently holding a meeting with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Abuja over the strike embarked upon by the union.

When the two sides met on Thursday, March 12th, 2020 the meeting was adjourned after the Federal Government proposed that the contentious Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and ASUU salary payment system be merged.

In that meeting, the agreement was that ASUU should formally present the proposal to Congress before today’s meeting.

Before that meeting went into a closed session, ASUU president, Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi, said it was unfortunate that the Federal Government made IPPIS look like the major issue in the union’s demands.

Another issue to correct is that we never said university bursars are to generate the budget for the instructions. ASUU is here with a report from members,

the ASUU president said.

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