The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) an appendage of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) begins warning strikes today as new realities may further stall academic resumption despite Federal Government directives.
Pending issues such as revitalisation of universities, Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), Earned Academic Allowances and inadequate funding may stall reopening slated for next week Monday.
Although schools across the nation were shut in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had been on strike prior to that on issues bothering on government’s decision to implement IPPIS, a payroll system, which lecturers considered a slander on university autonomy.
The Federal Government, on its part, has repeated denied to pay striking lecturers, many of which are yet to sign up into the IPPIS system set up by the government to monitor salary payment and curb the menace of ghost worker.
Meanwhile the president of ASUU Prof Biodun Ogunyemi has made it clear that ASUU members would continue to stay away from classes until all pending issues were duly attend to by the government.
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Ogunyemi said since Federal Government’s implementation of IPPIS, payment to ASUU members had been inconsistent and haphazard, claiming that lecturers were owed salaries, ranging from three to eight months.
Adamu Adamu, thr Education Minister had last Friday gave directives that all tertiary institutions should resume on October 12, with a caveat that each school would determine its own opening schedule based on their preparedness to meet the Coronavirus safety guidelines.
But the ASUU President has insisted that members of the union, who had been on strike since early March, would not resume work until their demands were met.
