ASUU says FG has consented to carry out UTAS, meets with government group on Tuesday Aug, 16

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has indicated that its University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) could at last have been acknowledged by the Federal Government as the stage to be utilized for the installment of pay rates of college speakers.

This is as the association has said that they are booked to meet with the Federal Government delegates on Tuesday over its delayed strike.

The compensation installment stage has been one of the significant areas of conflict among ASUU and the Federal Government as the teachers association had dismissed the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS) which is being utilized.

This was spread the word about by ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, while talking on a Channels Television program, Politics Today, on Monday night, where he said that the gatherings in the gathering will examine one of the seven issues ASUU is fighting over.

Osodeke said that the strike isn't just about their pay rates, however has to do with the framework, financing, design, independence, and different issues concerning college organization.

What the ASUU President is talking about

Osodeke during the meeting said, "That is the issue of renegotiation, the renegotiation of the 2009 arrangement.

"It isn't just about compensation. It has to do with the framework, subsidizing, the design, the independence and different issues; and how to finance colleges.

"The public authority has diminished it to simply pay rates alone. Be that as it may, in the event that they had taken a gander at the entire understanding and executed it, we won't discuss subsidizing."

Teacher Osodeke recommended that assuming Tuesday's gathering works out in a good way, the strike activity might be canceled.

He said, "We will sign.''

FG consents to carry out UTAS

On how should be gotten the instruction area in a good place again, the ASUU President said, ''The issues of IPPIS and UTAS has been settled in light of the fact that the test has been finished and as has been concurred with the Chief of Staff, UTAS will be executed to cover the college. Two, on the off chance that this administration is significant, this strike won't endure over about fourteen days. You review we planned to take to the streets in November, we didn't begin it.

''They met with the president, he set up a board headed by the Chief of Staff that ought to determine this rapidly, the world saw it in the press, they sat idle. The president set up the Munzali panel, we met them finish, nothing, they didn't return. They set up the Nimi Briggs advisory group, it's currently over 90 days, two months we completed the process of haggling with them, they didn't return.

''The president guided the Ministry of Education to complete in something like two weeks, fourteen days has passed, they didn't return.''

What you ought to be aware of

ASUU had on February 14, 2022, set out on a 4-week aggregate and thorough strike to squeeze home their unsettled requests on the national government.

A portion of the instructors' requests incorporate financing for the revitalisation of state funded colleges, installment of procured scholastic stipends, and reception of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) as a favored installment choice, rather than the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and installment of advancement unfulfilled obligations.

Others are the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement and the goal of irregularities in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS)

ASUU on May 9, further broadened its continuous strike by an additional 12 weeks to give the public authority sufficient opportunity to agreeably determine every one of the exceptional issues after an expansion on March 14 because of a supposed absence of reality with respect to the national government.

The Federal Government's Briggs renegotiation board of trustees, had since April 2022, been meeting with ASUU and other trade guilds in the colleges, who are right now protesting because of its debate with the public authority and non-goal of requests of the 2009 arrangements endorsed with the national government.

The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) had on July 26 and 27, left on a 2-day cross country fight in fortitude with the continuous strike activity by ASUU pointed toward compressing the Federal Government to close dealings with striking colleges associations and guarantee that state funded colleges continue for typical exercises, among others.

Likewise, President Muhammadu Buhari had on July 19 coordinated the Minister of Education, Adamu, to proffer an answer for the test and report back to him in about fourteen days. The president's final offer had since slipped by with no goal yet.

Yet again be that as it may, ASUU stayed resolute in its purpose to proceed with its interest as it on August 1 broadened its continuous strike by an additional a month to give the Federal Government additional opportunity to determine remarkable issues in its debate with it