Nigerian government surrenders to Varsity lecturers, replaces IPPIS with UTAS

  The Nigerian Government has sutrendered to lecturers in its Universities over positions on payment platform, Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Instead of IPPIS, Abuja declared plans to consider the adoption of the University Transparency Account System being proposed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Minister of Labour, Productivity and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, made this known on Tuesday after about two hours closed door meeting involving the Senate leadership, the Federal Government and ASUU leadership. Ngige said the alternative platform presented by ASUU is home…

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IPPIS: Buhari, Varsity Lecturers’ bickering worsens, dashes students’ resumption hope

No IPPIS enrolment, no Salary – President vows With IPPIS, no work – Lecturers union declares No end in sight to the seven months’ sitting at home by students of the public Universities in Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari has said that no civil servant, including their lecturers on the payroll of the Federal Government will receive salary henceforth without enrolment on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike over disagreement with the Federal Government on the mode…

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