{"id":24010,"date":"2020-01-25T16:59:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24010"},"modified":"2020-01-25T16:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:59:25","slug":"ippis-asuu-threatens-no-pay-no-work-over-fg-plan-to-stop-salaries-of-lecturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24010","title":{"rendered":"IPPIS: ASUU Threatens `No Pay, No Work\u2019 Over FG Plan To Stop Salaries Of Lecturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University lecturers have threatened a`No Pay, No Work\u2019 action over the Federal Government\u2019s plan to withhold the January salary of some of their colleagues who failed to enrol on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).<br \/>\nThe lecturers under aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) issued the threat in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.<br \/>\nThe ASUU National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi , said a circular by the Federal Government calling for such step was uncalled for, as the union\u2019s engagement with the \u00a0government on the issue was ongoing.<br \/>\nOgunyemi\u2019s reaction was against the backdrop of a directive from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), asking the Finance Minister not to release funds meant for January salaries of lecturers yet to enrol on IPPIS.<br \/>\n\u201cASUU has a resolution, that, should government go ahead to stop the salaries of our workers on the account of the IPPIS, we shall invoke our own resolution of \u201cNo Pay, No Work\u2019\u2019. So, that is where we stand.<br \/>\n\u201cWe believed that we are engaging them and we believe they will give us the opportunity to demonstrate the aspect of our proposed alternative to IPPIS which we think will address the peculiarities.<br \/>\n\u201cBut if that circular is true and they want to go ahead and stop the salaries of our workers, we shall react and respond appropriately.<br \/>\nThe ASUU president also said that he felt that the meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari three weeks ago, was to find a common ground to integrate the two platforms.<br \/>\n\u201cWe thought our meeting with Mr President as we understood is that we should meet and see where there are common grounds and see how we can integrate the two platforms,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe union had proposed the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) to address the peculiar cases of lecturers in the payment of salaries and other emoluments.<br \/>\nA letter from the OAGF dated Jan. 23 requested the Minister of Finance and National Planning to stop the release of funds for the payment of January salary of affected academic staff.<br \/>\nBy <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University lecturers have threatened a`No Pay, No Work\u2019 action over the Federal Government\u2019s plan to withhold the January salary of some of their colleagues who failed to enrol on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). The lecturers under aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) issued the threat in an interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[831,676,832],"class_list":["post-24010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","category-news","tag-asuu","tag-fg","tag-ippis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}