The Joint Action Committee, JAC, of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, chapter, Tuesday, joined their peers nationwide on a three-day protest over failure of the Federal Government to honour 2009 Memorandum of Understanding, MoU it reached with the union.
The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, in the University of Abuja, staged a peaceful protest Tuesday, to draw attention to what they referred to as federal government’s injustice to them.
Non-teaching staff in Nigerian Universities said they have concluded arrangements to embark on a three-day nationwide protests following federal government s re
IPPIS: Varsity workers threaten three-day nationwide protests
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja
Non-teaching staff in the universities under the aegis of the Joint Action Committee, will on Tuesday, embark on three-day nationwide protests over the government’s handling of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, sharing formula of the N40 billion earned academic allowances and non-payment of arrears of the new minimum wage.
The committee said other contentious issues that informed the decision include inconsistencies in IPPIS payment and the delay in the renegotiation of the FGN/ ASUU/SSANU 2009 Agreement.
Others were the non-payment of retirement benefits to former members, non-constitution of visitation panels to universities, poor funding of universities, teaching staff usurping the headship of non-teaching units, among others.