manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer arrives back on the pitch for the
second half of the English League Cup semi-final first leg football
match between Manchester United and Manchester City at Old Trafford
in Manchester, north west England on January 7, 2020. Paul ELLIS /
AFP
Cybercriminals targeted Manchester United’s IT systems
in a “sophisticated” hacking operation, the club said.
“The club has taken swift action to contain the attack and is
currently working with expert advisers to investigate the incident
and minimise the ongoing IT disruption,” it said in a statement
late Friday.
All “critical systems” required for games to take place at Old
Trafford were secure, the statement said, adding Saturday’s game
against West Bromwich Albion would go ahead as planned.
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“We are not currently aware of any breach of personal data
associated with our fans and customers,” it added.
“These type of attacks are becoming more and more common and are
something you have to rehearse for,” a spokesman for the club told
the PA news agency.
United are languishing in 14th in the Premier League table and a
fine start to their Champions League campaign took a knock with a
2-1 defeat to Istanbul Basaksehir.
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The Federal Government on Friday agreed to exempt the Academic
Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) from the Integrated Payroll and
Personnel Information System pending when the university lecturers
will complete the development of its own payment platform- the
University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).
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The government also agreed to ASUU’s demand to pay their
members’ salary arrears from February to June through the old
salary payment platform – the Government Integrated Financial and
Management Information System.
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After weeks of negotiations and foot – dragging, the government
offered to raise the Earned Academic Allowances to university staff
from N30bn to N35bn and the revitalisation fund from N20bn to
N25bn.
Cumulatively, the government, through the Accountant – General
of the Federation, offered the lectures N65 billion to call off
their eight-month old strike.
The government also shifted grounds on a number of issues,
including the insistence that all the academic staff of the federal
universities must be paid through the IPPIS platform.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, who read out the
communique at the end of a seven-hour negotiation with ASUU members
in Abuja, the funds will be shared by all the registered Trade
Unions in the universities after providing necessary evidence of
having earned the allowance.
“Responding to the demand for immediate payment of 50% of the
initial amount allotted for the purpose (revitalisation) which
translates to N110 billion, the FG stated that this is not possible
because of paucity of funds.
“The government, however, offered to pay N25 billion based on
the Memorandum of Action (MoA) of 7th February, 2019 signed with
ASUU or in the alternative, urged ASUU to accept N30 billion with
the reduction in the earlier Earned Allowances. Between the
revitalisation and earned allowances, the FG has offered a
cumulative sum of N65 billion.
“The Accountant-General of the Federation offered to immediately
release N40 billion or in the alternative N35 billion to be shared
by all the registered Trade Unions in the universities after
providing the necessary evidence of having earned the
allowance.
“The FG reiterated that her offer of N40 billion or 35 billion
whichever is accepted by ASUU was for all the universities unions:
ASUU had proposed that N40 billion be paid immediately for all
unions ,” the communique said.
The breakthrough in negotiations is expected to end the
eight-month strike embarked on by the university lecturers.
Before the new offer by government, ASUU had demanded N110
billion for revitalisation which should be paid in tranches.
The union also told the government that the N30 billion EAA was
for only ASUU members, a position the government rejected, citing
lack of funds to meet ASUU’s financial demands.
On his part, ASUU president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi said that the
union has received the new proposals by the federal government and
that it will go and consult with it’s organs before taking a
position.
“I don’t really have much to say as the minister had said it
all. Government has given us offers and we have promised to go back
to our organs to brief them and then come back to government. We
acknowledge that progress has been made,” he said.
Ogunyemi said that ASUU will need till Friday next week to meet
with its organs before reverting to government.
The meeting was therefore adjourned till next Friday.