Skip to main content

UPDATED: ASUU unveils UTAS as alternative to IPPIS

 

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday told the Federal Government that the University Transparency and Accountability Solution , which it developed as an alternative to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System is read for integrity tests .

According to ASUU , the software for UTAS was unveiled and demonstrated to the Minister of Education and senior management staff of the Ministry of Education , including the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission , Prof . Abdulrasheed Abubakar, on Monday .

The national President of ASUU , Prof . Biodun Ogunyemi , made this known during a press conference held at the Gwagwalada campus of the University of Abuja , attended by almost all its national officers .

But Ogunyemi maintained that it would not suspend its ongoing strike until the Federal Government honours its 2019 agreements .

“It is our sincere hope that the government would not renege on its promise because the benefits of UTAS to the university system ( both public and private) cannot be found in any other software in Nigeria today . Now that the union is close to meeting the government ’s demand on an alternative to IPPIS , it is our sincere hope that the substantive issues in the ongoing strike action would be given the desired attention ,” he added .


The ASUU president also lamented that five months ’ salaries of their members at the University of Maiduguri and the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture , Umudike are still withheld by the Accountant -General of the Federation on account of non- registration on IPPIS .

“Thousands of other academics across the Universities are suffering the same fate. So , while we counsel that government at both the federal and state levels must meet the Taskforce specified guidelines for reopening of educational institutions , we insist that all the arrears of the withheld salaries of our members in federal and state Universities must be paid immediately to pave for further discussion on the outstanding issues in the Memorandum of Action of February 7 2019 ,” he added .

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

ASUU NEC Meeting ended in dispute as the house got divided over strike actions

  The Academic staff union of university national executive committee meeting ended in dispute today has the house got divided over strike actions. The union executives held a meeting on Saturday to decide on the next step as regards the inability of the FG to meet up with their demands.  ASUU had previously given the federal government ultimatum to the end of August to meet up with their demands, but as of yesterday Friday, 3rd September, the union said FG is yet to respond to their request which made them (ASUU) call a NEC meeting but unfortunately, there was a divided house as some accepted the union go on strike while some kicked against it... According to the president of the association, Pro. Emmanuel Osodeke the executives will meet again on Monday to conclude on the next step.
Post a Comment
Read more

School resumption date: FG ask schools to prepare for reopening, relax nationwide curfew time

  Nigerian goment say state goment dem plus school administrators make dem make plans and prepare for di full reopening of schools for di kontri. Di National Coordinator of di Presidential Taskforce, Sani Aliyu tell tori pipo dis one for Abuja during di Presidential taskforce briefing on Covid-19 on Thursday. Aliyu tok wen im outline di new guidelines for di third phase of di eased lockdown for di kontri wey dey begin effective midnight. E explain say educational institutions like daycare, primary, secondary and tertiary institutions gatz begin prepare to see how dem fit open within dis third phase of di easing of di lockdown. E say di taskforce recommendation na be say make state goment dem conduct risk assessment to ensure say all schools for every level follow di lay down covid 19 protocol and also make sure dem get strategy on ground to take monitor how di schools dem dey ready. Oga Aliyu say all schools dem gatz remain close to in classes studies until di state goment dem cari...
Post a Comment
Read more

Official: Original Details about School resumption in Nigeria Tertiary institutions

  when will school resume in nigeria: Have you been asking when schools will resume? This page is for you! We will share all the latest news on school resumption in Nigerian. August 13th Update: Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU) Announces Resumption Date for First Year Students. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU) formerly called Anambra State University (ANSU) seems to be the first Government-owned University to announce resumption date for students. According to the school management, all COOU fresh students are to resume August 13th 2020 while their first semester exams will commence 20th August, 2020. COOU calling students to resume school gives us hope that Tertiary Institution students will resume this year. Talking about that, please note that there’s no official notice that schools will resume September 7th. Disregard any news stating otherwise. We are monitoring the updates on school resumption and will update this page whenever there’s news. August 1...
Post a Comment
Read more