The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has explained why it rejected two federal government payment platforms and insisted on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), which it created as an alternative. The union’s president also explained why some lecturers sometimes teach in two universities.
ASUU had rejected the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), a platform the federal government uses to pay no fewer than 789,000 of its workers in various sectors of the economy. ASUU members are also currently on the platform.
The union had also rejected the Government Integrated Financial Management and Information System (GIFMIS), the platform the federal government recently approved that ASUU payment should transit to, with effect from November
In an exclusive interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja, the ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, said that the union’s stance is in line with the autonomy…