By Adedoyin Falolu
The Federal Government has finally accepted to exempt the Academic Staff Union of Universities,(ASUU) from IPPIS while it also accepted to increase Earned Allowances and Revitalization fun to a total of 70 billion.
Todays meeting negotiations finally yielded result as the Federal Government accepted the demand by ASUU that they be exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
The meeting also produced further result as government also shifted grounds that all the academic staff of the federal universities must be paid through the IPPIS platform.
In a communique read out at the end of a seven-hour negotiation with ASUU members in Abuja, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, said the government also agreed to ASUU’s demand to pay their members’ salary arrears from February to June through the old salary payment platform, Government Integrated Financial and Management Information System.
Ngige also announced that the government has agreed to raise the Earned Allowances to university staff from N30bn to N35bn and the revitalization fund from N20bn to N25bn.
The success at today’s meeting is expected to end the eight-month strike embarked on by the university lecturers.
The President of ASUU,Prof Biodun Ogunyemi explained that the outcome of the meeting will be communicated with other branches of the union and a decision will be made soon on resumption.