ASUU BREAKING NEWS This Morning, Friday, November 20

Good morning and welcome to another edition of Brainnews daily updates on the ASUU strike across Nigeria.

Below is the latest updates:

1. Govt, ASUU talks raise hope of end to strike

Govt, ASUU talks raise hope of end to strike

An end to the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be in sight.

The Federal Government on Thursday promised to “bend backwards” to meet ASUU’s demands “half-way”.

Both parties will meet today as talks to end the strike which began on March 23 continues.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, faulted comments by ASUU zonal coordinators, saying they should not be speaking for the union.

To him, the zonal coordinators were becoming a “nuisance”.

Ngige said: “We are meeting with their national leadership tomorrow (today) and those in the zones are advised that it is serious indiscipline to be talking on behalf of their national body.

“The zonal branches are becoming a nuisance with all their comments on matters that are being conciliated.

2. IPPIS can’t tackle corruption in universities, says ASUU

IPPIS can’t tackle corruption in universities, says ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) has criticised the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), saying it lacks the capacity to curb corruption in the university’s system.

The union explained that the IPPIS was not a legal instrument that could dictate and tackle fraudulent activities of some university administrators insisting that the government’s payment system breached university autonomy.

ASUU’s position was contained in a statement signed by the union’s leaders of universities in Port Harcourt zone.

Those, who endorsed the document are Uzo Onyebinama, Zonal Coordinator, ASUU, Port Harcourt; Emmanuel Akpan, Chairperson, Federal University Otuoke (FUO); Endurance Joseph, Chairperson, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education; Tonbara Kingdom, Chairperson, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island and Austen Sado, Chairperson, University of Port Harcourt.

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