The Federal Government is right now meeting with the Joint Action Committee involving the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions.
News360 Info assembled that the gathering is holding at the Federal Ministry of Labor and Employment, Abuja.
Among those present in the gathering are the Minister of Labor and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige; SSANU National President, Mohammed Ibrahim; and NASU General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi.
The non-teaching staff in the universities had announced that they would embark on a nationwide strike from February 5, 2021, over the Federal Government’s handling of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, sharing the formula of the N40 billion earned academic allowances and non-payment of arrears of the new minimum wage.
Others are the non-payment of retirement benefits to former members, non-constitution of visitation panels to universities, poor funding of universities, teaching staff usurping the headship of non-teaching units, among others.
The committee had embarked on a three-day protest over the government’s failure to honour the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the unions on October 20, 2020.
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