The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has embarked on a two- week warning strike with effect from Monday.
Its National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, announced this at end of the National Executive Council meeting(NEC) held at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT).
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Ogunyemi said the strike action was to compel the federal government to implement the agreements and resolutions of Memorandum of Action discussed in the 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and the 2017 Memorandum of Action (MoU), all of which have not been implemented.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU at Aso Villa to find the way forward.
The meeting was held behind closed-doors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Disclosing this in a tweet, Buhari’s Special Assistant on New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi wrote: “ASUU meeting with the President this afternoon. Ministers of Education and Finance in attendance.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu and his Finance counterpart, Zainab Ahmed were also part of the dignitaries in the meeting.
The meeting is believed to be centered around the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information (IPPIS), which the union is against.
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The federal government has made several efforts to make ASUU members see reasons they should embrace IPPIS.
The leadership of the union is, however, insistent on staying off it.
The union had alternatively developed a solution called University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), which it claims is equivalent to IPPIS, but the federal government is insisting on IPPIS.
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