N40bn Earned Allowances: Varsities Workers Insist On Fair Sharing Formula

Universities workers have issued the Federal Government a stern
warning over the N40 billion Earned Academic Allowances it promised
to release to all unions in the university system.

The workers warned the Federal Government would have to deal
with another round of strike if the funds were not fairly shared
among the universities-based unions.

The government, on Friday in a meeting with the leadership of
the Academic Staff Union of Universities, raised the EAA to N40
billion to be shared by the four universities – based unions.

The other unions in the university system include: Senior Staff
Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU; Non Academic Staff
Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), and the
National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT)

SSANU urged the Federal Government to ensure that the money
passed through the Universities Councils which have the template of
sharing formula.

It also warmed the government to be wary of any group or union
that would present any payment platform apart from the Integrated
Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) which it claimed
is the one recognised by government to curb corruption within the
system.

ASUU has presented the University Transparency and
Accountability Solution (UTAS) as an alternative payment platform
to the federal government for its members.

President of SSANU, Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, in a statement on
Sunday, said his union would resist the introduction of any payment
platform aside IPPIS or the one being conceived by the Joint Action
Committee (JAC) of SSANU and NASU.

He said government had no business in sharing money to unions as
universities were established through statute of law and each
university has a Governing Council, which is the employer of all
workers and the highest policy making body of each university.

He said the university administration through the registry and
bursary units have the responsibility of knowing who should earn
what and advised government to channel whatever amount they are
giving properly through the Councils.

Universities workers have issued the Federal Government a stern
warning over the N40 billion Earned Academic Allowances it promised
to release to all unions in the university system.

The workers warned the Federal Government would have to deal
with another round of strike if the funds were not fairly shared
among the universities-based unions.

The government, on Friday in a meeting with the leadership of
the Academic Staff Union of Universities, raised the EAA to N40
billion to be shared by the four universities – based unions.

The other unions in the university system include: Senior Staff
Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU; Non Academic Staff
Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), and the
National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT)

SSANU urged the Federal Government to ensure that the money
passed through the Universities Councils which have the template of
sharing formula.

It also warmed the government to be wary of any group or union
that would present any payment platform apart from the Integrated
Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) which it claimed
is the one recognised by government to curb corruption within the
system.

ASUU has presented the University Transparency and
Accountability Solution (UTAS) as an alternative payment platform
to the federal government for its members.

President of SSANU, Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, in a statement on
Sunday, said his union would resist the introduction of any payment
platform aside IPPIS or the one being conceived by the Joint Action
Committee (JAC) of SSANU and NASU.

He said government had no business in sharing money to unions as
universities were established through statute of law and each
university has a Governing Council, which is the employer of all
workers and the highest policy making body of each university.

He said the university administration through the registry and
bursary units have the responsibility of knowing who should earn
what and advised government to channel whatever amount they are
giving properly through the Councils.