Tag: Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS)

Lecturers Shortage Hits Varsities, ASUU Blames Japa, IPPIS

Abibat Babalola

Universities in Nigeria are battling a severe shortage of staff as thousands of lecturers leave the tertiary institutions to seek greener pastures in foreign lands amid the high number of retirements at the varsities. The Academic Staff Union of Universities branches in separate interviews with The PUNCH on Sunday confirmed this, adding that the shortage was due to the surge in the exit of the lecturers out of Nigeria and the concerns around the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System. ASUU at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, said about 100…

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Tinubu Begged To Pay ASUU Salaries For Months Members Were On Strike

Abibat Babalola

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been urged to release the eight months’ salary arrears of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) withheld by former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. In 2022, the ASUU embarked on an eight-month strike over the non-implementation of their demands by the federal government. At the time, the government had threatened to invoke the ‘no work, no pay’ policy on the striking lecturers. After the strike was called off, the then Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, had said the government was not going to pay anyone…

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