The crisis between the federal government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS) enrollment for members of the union
Daily Trust reports that the duo could not reach an agreement over the ongoing two-week warning strike embarked on by the union.
We gathered that the meeting, which lasted till late night on Tuesday, March 17, was the second as the two parties seek to resolve issues raised by ASUU.
The minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, stated that the federal government had tabled a new proposal regarding the impasse over the IPPIS enrollment for members of the union but according to the newspaper, both the FG and ASUU did not reveal to journalists what the proposal was.
Ngige said that the issues under consideration ranged from funding, revitalization of public universities, earned academic allowances to salary shortfalls.
The leadership of ASUU and the representatives of the federal government during a meeting in Abuja over the ongoing strike by the union.
Ngige said: “The issue of IPPIS, we’ve also discussed and options, solutions were advanced and the government has a proposal which we are giving to ASUU.
“Some of these issues that are outstanding, the ASUU’s team will take them back to their bigger council to be on the same page with them before they get back to the government. We have also agreed that the tentative time to get back to the government would be before the weekend runs out. We expect ASUU to get back to the government in writing and there is a need for another meeting on that, you’ll be informed.”
The two-week warning strike, which the union declared, would elapse on Monday, March 23, adding that ASUU declared the strike mainly to protest the non-payment of salaries of their members who failed to enrol in the federal government’s IPPIS.
ASUU’s president, Biodun Ogunyemi, in his remark, noted that they have improved on where they stopped in the previous meeting.
He said that they had what they can call “concrete proposals to our members.”
“But, as we usually say, those of us here can’t make a final pronouncement on any of the proposals. We have assured the government’s team that we will report faithfully to our principals and get back to government accordingly,” Biodun said.
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