According to ASUU and SSANU, the negotiating team is waiting for the Federal Government.

 According to ASUU and SSANU, the negotiating team is waiting for the Federal Government.

ASUU MEETING

After discussing the 2009 agreements with the Federal Government renegotiation committee, the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, as well as the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions, have both stated that they have yet to receive any message.

The Federal Government renegotiation committee, which would be chaired by Prof. Nimi Briggs, Pro-Chancellor of Alex Ekweme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, is slated to review the draft proposed 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement and renegotiate with other striking university unions.

The Briggs renegotiation committee has been meeting with university unions since April 2022, and they are all presently on strike as a result of unmet demands in the 2009 accords made with the FG.

Prof. Emmanuel Idris, ASUU's National President. They said they were waiting for their "masters," so we went over the meeting with them and they promised to get back to us as soon as their principal responded. So we're holding our breath. The strike hasn't ended yet."

Mohammed further claimed that false information on the findings of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution and the University Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System had been spread on social media.He went on to say that NITDA had only just finished testing on UTAS and U3PS and that no results had been disclosed.

The Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System test, according to Mohammed, is still ongoing.

The IPPIS was described by higher education unions as a troublesome payment platform, with everyone complaining bitterly about its inconsistency and claiming it was an imported fraudulent platform.

As a result of IPPIS' inconsistencies and salary short-changing, ASUU and SSANU developed their own payment platforms, UTAS and U3PS, respectively.

"The findings of the payment platforms, as rumored, are not yet out," Mohammed remarked. The UTAS and UP3 tests have been completed, and the committee is now on IPPIS.According to the MEDIA, SSANU's strike began with a two-week warning strike that began at midnight on Sunday, March 27, 2021, and was extended for another two weeks on Sunday, April 10, 2022, and is still ongoing.

SSANU has made a number of claims, including irregular implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, unpaid earned allowances, delays in renegotiating FGN, NASU, and SSANU agreements, and non-payment of minimum wage arrears.

Others include, among other things, state university neglect and underfunding, non-payment of retirement benefits to exiting union members, and usurpation of non-teaching unit leadership in clear violation of conditions of service and establishing processes.

The ASUU began its current strike on The Federal Government refused to meet some of its demands, including the release of university revitalisation funds, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the UTAS payment platform for the payment of university lecturers' salaries and allowances, on February 14, 2022.

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