Gregory University Set To Commence Film Production
A leading private university in Nigeria, Gregory University Uturu has concluded plans to commence the production of home movies. The university ABN TV gathered is partnering with veteran Nollywood Artiste Emmanuel Ayalogu, for joint production of home movies. Speaking at a brief ceremony marking the formal signing and unveiling of a Memorandum of Understanding, the Chancellor of the university, Prof. Gregory...
FG Considers ASUU Payment Software, “UTAS”, Subjects It To Integrity Test
STRONG indications have emerged that the Federal Government may at the end of the day, accept demands by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU by jettisoning and the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS and accepting the University Transparency Account System(UTAS) payment platform developed by the University Lecturers. According to the Federal Government, it may accept the UTAS...
IPPIS: Government Can’t Use ASUU Platform To Pay Us — University Workers
The university non- academic workers have warned that the Federal Government cannot use the payment platform designed by the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) to pay them, even as they have rejected the new platform introduced by the Federal Government, the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Rather, the workers asked the government to revert to the former...
FG Blackmailing University Workers Into Enrolling On IPPIS – ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has described the directive stopping the salaries of university employees, who have not enrolled on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS as blackmail to weaken workers and make them enrol on the platform. The Chairman of the University of Port Harcourt Branch of ASUU, Dr Austen Sado, who spoke on Sunday,...
Those Feeding Fat On IPPIS Will Soon Be Exposed – ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it will soon expose those feeding fat on the adoption of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, by the Federal Government as its payment platform. This is just as the union alleged that some people in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation are subverting its efforts...
IPPIS: We’ll Defend University Autonomy With Our Blood – ASUU
The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, has vowed that they will protect university autonomy with the last drop of their blood. Ogunyemi made this clear in a press statement made available to newsmen in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The statement was titled “On President Buhari’s No IPPIS, No Salary” and Ogunyemi explained...
Only University Lecturers On IPPIS Will Be Paid – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that members of the Association of Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will get salaries. He stated this on Thursday in his annual speech to the joint session of the two chambers of the National Assembly which is currently ongoing. In the highlight of the 2021 Appropriation budget being presented to the National Assembly, he explained that...
FG Threatens To Shut Down FGGC Umuahia Over Poor Sanitary Condition
The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has threatened to shut down the Federal Girls College Umuahia over poor sanitary and maintenance culture by the management of the school. Nwajiuba, who issued the threat during a visit on Monday expressed disappointment over the level of infrastructural dilapidation and poor sanitary condition of facilities in the school. The minister, who was...
October 12 Resumption: Strike Remains Indefinite, We Can’t Work On Empty Stomach – ASUU
There were strong indications on Monday that students of public universities in the country would stay at home further as the Academic Staff Union of Universities dismissed the Federal Government’s directive that all educational institutions in the country should resume on Monday next week. The National President of ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, in a telephone interview with The PUNCH, said...
Nigerian Education Graduates, Students To Receive Automatic Employment, Stipends From FG
The payment of stipends to Bachelor of Education students as well as granting them automatic employment after graduation is now federal government policy, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has said. He said this in Abuja at the commemoration of the World Teachers Day on Monday. President Muhammadu Buhari has also approved a special salary scale for teachers in the country. He...
