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What FG, ASUU, Discussed At Monday’s Meeting
- Ngige said the government had also paid the ₦30 billion as the University Revitalisation Fund contained in the MOA since January 2021
The Federal Government has said that its meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday meant at evaluating the implementation of the Memorandum of Action (MOA) entered into by the parties went well.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the end of the closed-door meeting in Abuja.
Ngige explained that the meeting evaluated seven main issues with both parties expressing satisfaction with the completion stages, adding that “work is in progress”.
According to him, some of the items in the MOA were nearly done 100 percent within the timeline.
The minister said that the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) was instructed to expedite action on the integrity test on the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS).
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He said, ”If successful, it will eliminate the challenges posed by the peculiarities of the university system to the current payment platform.”
Ngige said the government had also paid the ₦30 billion as the University Revitalisation Fund contained in the MOA since January 2021.
He said, “The report has been turned in, deliberated upon and both the Education Ministry and the NUC have promised to write to the Accountant General of the Federation next week for the release of the money to the NEEDS Special Account for onward disbursement to universities shortly.”
He also added, “ASUU is to go back to its members so that we can have a proper update on the extent of the inconsistencies in payment.
”We expressed our displeasure that these things are happening – amputation of salaries, not-too-clear, foggy things happening over peoples monthly emoluments. So we’ve asked IPPIS and ASUU to work together over this.”
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