Non teaching Staff Unions of Nigerian universities began a three-day nationwide protest to push for a better deal in the sharing formula of N40 billion earned allowances to university based unions.
The protesting unions are the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non Academic Staff of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU.
At the start of protests at the University of Abuja, the National President of NASU, Hassan Makolo says they will not accept a sharing formula of 75 percent to Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and 25 percent to three non teaching staff.
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On the Integrated Payroll Payment Implementation Scheme IPPIS, the workers say the payment system has failed to meet their peculiarities, and they have come up with an alternative called, the Universities Peculiar Personnel Payroll System, UPPPS.
ASUU suspended a nine month old strike in December 2020, after the federal government suspended the use of IPPIS for salary payment and approved N40 billion for Earned academic allowance and N30 billion as universities revitalisation funds.
Editor- Oloyede Oworu
