FG, ASUU Resume Talks Today over IPPIS, Revitalisation Fund

The federal government’s negotiating team and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will resume negotiations today to iron out their differences over the application of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and the proposed release of N30 billion university revitalisation fund.

Confirming the planned resumption of the talks to THISDAY yesterday, Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, said: “The contentious issues have virtually been addressed except for IPPIS and revitalisation fund, which ASUU opted to go and consult its organs.”

He said government was working on the gazetting of the visitation panel for the universities and reconstitution of negotiating team, adding that announcement will be made on both issues this week.

However, there are indications that today’s meeting between ASUU and the federal government team may be deadlocked again unless President Muhammadu Buhari intervenes to order payment of salaries to lecturers based on old GIFMIS platform pending when UTAS is ready for use.

At their last meeting on Thursday, both parties had disagreed on two key issues, revitalisation fund and how to handle payment of salaries to ASUU members pending the conclusion of an ongoing test run on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).

THISDAY learnt that ASUU had shifted ground at the last meeting by requesting that the federal government provides N110 billion, half of the N220 billion it demanded as revitalisation fund for federal universities.

But the government said it cannot afford that with the present state of the economy.

Ngige had reminded ASUU of the position of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) with regard to “ability to pay” as a cardinal principle of collective bargaining agreement.

The source said ASUU agreed with the government’s offer of N30 billion as earned allowances but said the amount should be for only lecturers.

However, the federal government rejected ASUU’s demand to be given the N30 billion for lecturers alone, saying that all other unions in the university system should also receive payment from the money.

On revitalisation fund, a source privy to the meeting said: “The federal government is not ready to accede to ASUU’s demand for N110 billion now because it was part of the 2013 agreement that is now being renegotiated. That was why the government is offering things of good faith, like the payment of earned allowance pending when the committee saddled with the responsibility of identifying other alternative sources of funding concludes their work.”

For the two issues, ASUU team was asked to go and consult more with the union members and come back today for further deliberation.

On the implementation of the IPPIS, which almost stalled the meeting, the federal government said IPPIS should be allowed to operate in the interim until the test-run on UTAS is concluded.

But ASUU wanted payment of outstanding salaries on old GIFMIS platform before the implementation of UTAS.

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Reno Omokri writes:

I am wise. I am not nice. I am generous. I am not frivolous. Don’t come to my TL saying you are a single mum and you and your kids will die if I dont give you money. If you can afford data and smartphone, you can afford to feed! 
I have sympathy for widows.

I have NONE for single mums. If you know how to open your legs outside marriage and have children, then you should know how to hold the man who impregnated you. 

I am not contesting for any political office, that is why I have no filter. I built an orphanage with my money. I know first hand what premarital sex can cause. Get out of my profile. I teach you to maintain your virginity until you marry, and you insult me. Now you are begging me for money to cater for your children. 
Open Scripture.

You will NEVER see anywhere God said help single mothers. Never. I have read Scripture cover to cover in multiple translations and in the original languages. God hates premarital sex. He says help WIDOWS and ORPHANS, not deliberate single mothers!

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'I Don't Help Single Mothers' - Reno Omokri

Reno Omokri writes:

I am wise. I am not nice. I am generous. I am not frivolous. Don’t come to my TL saying you are a single mum and you and your kids will die if I dont give you money. If you can afford data and smartphone, you can afford to feed! 

I have sympathy for widows. I have NONE for single mums. If you know how to open your legs outside marriage and have children, then you should know how to hold the man who impregnated you. 

I am not contesting for any political office, that is why I have no filter. I built an orphanage with my money. I know first hand what premarital sex can cause. Get out of my profile. I teach you to maintain your virginity until you marry, and you insult me. Now you are begging me for money to cater for your children. 

Open Scripture. You will NEVER see anywhere God said help single mothers. Never. I have read Scripture cover to cover in multiple translations and in the original languages. God hates premarital sex. He says help WIDOWS and ORPHANS, not deliberate single mothers!