The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, are meeting at an undisclosed location, following the expiration of a one month warning strike.
ASUU started a warning strike on February 14, 2022 to push for the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement, Adoption of UTAS over IPPIS among others.
Meanwhile, the Federal government has gone ahead to reconstitute the FGN/University-based unions agreement renegotiation team.
While the outcome of the ongoing ASUU meeting is being awaited, a statement surfaced from ASUU which ASUU says is necessitated by the need for it to put the records straight on the grounds already covered in the deployment of the University Transperancy and Accountability Solution, UTAS, which the federal government says has failed integrity test.
ASUU says of particular concern to it is the statement credited to both the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy and Director General of NITDA to the effect that UTAS has failed the integrity test.
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ASUU Insists that an integrity test was carried out by NITDA on August 10, 2021 at the National Universities Commission, NUC where relevant government agencies and all the end-users in the University system were present and scored UTAS 85 %.
The latest face-off may not be unconnected to ASUU’s rejection of Professorship appointment on the Minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Pantami.
