Federal Govt to resume meeting with ASSU on friday

The ministry of labor and employment disclosed on Wednesday night that the federal government has said it will resume meeting with the academic staff on friday to address various pending issues ,Including the contentious payment platform by the union.

Recalled that ASUU had opposed the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System used in settling workers ’ salaries by the FG and instead , developed the University Transparency and Accountability Solution which is currently undergoing test -run by the National Information Technology Development Agency .

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and the Non- Academic Staff Union had also proposed the University General and Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System in place of the IPPIS.

Their action followed the complaints against the IPPIS which allegedly caused salary delays and shortchanged the university workers.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment spokesman , Charles Akpan , disclosed in a text message on Wednesday that the dialogue with the ASUU leaders would hold at the minister ’s conference hall .

The government said it had agreed to pay #30 billion earned academic Alliance,20 billion for the revitalization of the education security and the arreas of salary to the university teachers,adding that only outstanding issues was the disagreement over the payment platform .

But ASSU insisted that the government has not met its demand ,that the resolution of the eight month strike was not in sight.

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