NASU, SSANU Threaten Indefinite Strike Action Nationwide

NASU, SSANU

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of NASU and SSANU announced this in a communique, amid the ongoing warning strike by the unions Some of the issues that led to the industrial action, according to the unions, include problems of inconsistencies in payment with the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS)…  EDITOR’S PICK Rejection Of … Read more

Strike: ASUU Reveals Condition For Reopening Of Varsities

ASUU

ASUU said its members are ever ready to return to their duty post as soon as their demands are met by the Federal Government  The union declared a four-week rolling strike at the University of Lagos National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held on Feb. 14 EDITOR’S PICK Fake Corper Nabbed At Orientation Camp, Stolen Phones … Read more

ASUU May Declare Indefinite Strike Monday

ASUU

ASUU demands include the revitalisation of public universities, earned academic allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) promotion arrears…  The source disclosed that there were no concrete offers from the government to convince the union to call off the strike EKO HOT BLOG reports that a meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Academic Staff … Read more

Implement 2009 Agreement Or Shut Down Varsities, ASUU Tells FG

ASUU

The national president of ASUU, Osodeke, said anything concerning improving and investing in the universities, government would always say it had no money Ngige had said the government was considering renegotiation of the terms of the agreement with ASUU in the effort to end the ongoing strike EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Academic Staff … Read more

[ASUU] Panel On UTAS To Submit Report On Tuesday

ASUU

The one-month warning strike by ASUU has entered its final week today The Federal Government and the union have been engaged in a series of negotiations in a bid to prevent ASUU from embarking on the indefinite strike EKO HOT BLOG reports that the joint committee of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the … Read more

SSANU Chides FG, Threatens To Shut Down Varsities

SSANU

SSANU said it had been reluctant to resume its suspended strike because of its effect on students, university education and the parents The union’s President identified another contentious issue as the renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement with the Federal Government that is long overdue EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian … Read more

Strike: FG Not Showing Seriousness With Negotiations – ASUU

ASUU

ASUU had begun a one-month warning strike on Monday February 14, 2022 over what it described as the Federal Government’s failure to meet its demands If both parties fail to resolve the issues in two weeks, the union may go on a total indefinite and comprehensive strike EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Academic Staff … Read more

Unless FG Addresses Existing Issues, There’ll Be No Rest For Us All – ASUU Vows

ASUU

The ASUU Chairman decided the unfriendly working environment in the universities and the poor remuneration of the teaching staff EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to honour the existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Memorandum of Action (MoA) it entered with the union. … Read more

FG’s ₦52.5bn Fund Not Enough To Avert Strike – ASUU

ASUU

Osodeke described the fund released by the government as a token payment…  EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said the ₦30bn Revitalisation Fund and ₦22.5bn Earned Academic Allowance totalling ₦52.5bn released by the Federal Government is not enough to deal with the challenges facing the university system. The … Read more

FG May Suspend Salaries of 1,173 Foreign Mission Workers Over IPPIS

FG may suspend salaries of 1,173 foreign mission workers over IPPIS EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Federal Government has said it may suspend the salaries of 1,173 of its workers by January over the failure to upgrade their records on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System. This information was contained in a circular … Read more

FG’s Meeting With SSANU, NASU Ends In Deadlock

NASU

SSANU and NASU are protesting unpaid earned allowances and arrears of the minimum wage They are also asking that their members be delisted from the government’s IPPIS payment platform The meeting between the Federal Government and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), has ended in … Read more

No Going Back On Planned Industrial Action – Varsity Workers

NASU

SSANU and NASU are protesting against the government’s IPPIS payment platform The Non-teaching staff have insisted they are embarking on a strike action on February 5. The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) have insisted that there is no going back … Read more

NASU, SSANU Direct Branches To Hold Congresses On Likely Strike Action

NASU, SSANU Direct Branches To Hold Congresses On Likely Strike Action

The Unions are dissatisfied with the sharing formula of the ₦40b EAA, non-payment of arrears of the new minimum wage The SSANU President said on Tuesday that MoUs are now a charade because the government does not follow through with it. The Joint Action Committee of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Senior Staff … Read more

SSANU Threatens To Down Tools If FG Fails To Address Protest Demands

SSANU

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has said that it might embark on an industrial action if the Federal Government does not listen to its demands. Eko Hot Blog reported on Tuesday that the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU)  commenced a … Read more

House Of Representatives To Probe Alleged Fraud In IPPIS

IPPIS

IPPIS The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, yesterday set up an enquiry into allegations that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, (IPPIS) was riddled with fraud and irregularities, which had led to the none payment of salaries and allowances of Federal Civil Servants. The committee initiated the inquest in the course of … Read more

SSANU, NASU Reject UTAS, Propose Separate Payment Platform – Ngige

Healthcare in Nigeria is ‘Fairly Okay’ – Ngige

NOVEMBER 12, 2020  The Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU) have kicked against the payment platform proposed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed this on Thursday while addressing journalists at the National Assembly complex in Abuja. “There … Read more

Despite talks, FG sends delegates to varsities for IPPIS capturing — ASUU

Indications emerged on Friday that the faceoff between the Federal Government and the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities may not end soon. Despite the ongoing discussions between the two, Academic Staff Union of Universities said the government had sent officials from the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation to commence … Read more

IPPIS Impasse: ASUU To Call Off Strike As FG Mulls Adopting Union’s UTAS

ASUU

There are indications that talks between federal government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are going in positive direction as compromise between the two parties to resolve payments issues is imminent. The federal government in October 2019 directed workers in its ministries, departments and agencies (MDA) to enroll on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel … Read more