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ASUU Battles Kano University Magt Over Fees Increment

February 27, 2020 3:05 pm
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil, chapter, has faulted the recent increase of students’ registration fees.

It described the decision as a clear act of insensitivity.

Besides, the academic union insisted that such decision by the Vice-chancellor and the school’s management was not in tandem with the new Kano State policy on Free and Compulsory Education.

ASUU in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman Comrade Muhammad Sani Gaya and Secretary Comrade Murtala Muhammad regretted that the increase was coming at a time the university was expending extravagant resources on exotic cars

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You Are Incompetent, Resign Now – ASUU Tells AGF

February 20, 2020 10:50 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday asked the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris to resign over gross incompetence.

ASUU said that the failure of the Accountant General to release remit deductions of University workers salaries for the month of January three weeks after payment of their salaries is a deliberate plan to make university staff suffer.

A release jointly signed by the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of the Union, Dr Ade Adejumo and University of Ibadan Chairman Professor Ayo Akinwole stated that salaries are not paid when deductions on cooperative societies and other schemes are

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Sexual Harassment In Schools: ASUU Counsels Lawmakers

February 18, 2020 6:30 am

Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday, advocated the review of existing laws on sexual harassment in tertiary institutions.

He made the call at a hearing in Abuja on “Sexual Harassment of Students in Tertiary Educational Institution Prohibition Bill”, organised by Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters chaired by Sen. Bamidele Opeyemi.

Ogunyemi declared that ASUU was not in support of sexual harassment in any form.

He said since there were laws that addressed the menace, there was no point wasting time on another law.

“Are there laws that would

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ASUU Opens Talks With FG Over 2009 Pact, IPPIS

February 11, 2020 5:32 am

 

As part of moves to halt an impending strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over its standoff with the federal government on the non-implementation of the February 2009 agreement and government’s insistence that the union members must enroll on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), leaders of the union and the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, have commenced fresh talks, THISDAY has learnt.

The union has also accused the federal government of plotting to embark on what it called the “dilution” of the academic ranks of its members, through a 11-member committee set …

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IPPIS : We’ll Stop Work If FG Stops Our Salary

February 7, 2020 8:52 am

National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Biodun Ogunyemi, has said the union would stop work should the Federal Government halt the payment of salaries of  members over issues pertaining to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

Ogunyemi stated this in Nsukka, yesterday, at a press briefing after addressing ASUU members at the  University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).

He said he was in UNN to brief, interact and share ideas with members on  recent developments in the union waring that public universities would lose their autonomy if they were enrolled in IPPIS.

“ASUU will continue to say …

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I Will Not Reverse IPPIS Policy – Buhari Tells Lecturers

February 2, 2020 8:27 am

President Muhammadu Buhari says the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) cannot be reversed.

The President who emphasised that the policy has come to stay, said the IPPS was a move to block the loopholes in public finances, eliminate fraud and retrieve funds.

Recall that the federal government had ceased the payment of salaries of lecturers yet to enrol in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

ASUU had then vowed to activate its NO PAY NO WORK policy as soon as the government stopped her members’ salaries.

However, speaking at the 29th convocation ceremony of the Federal

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