The Federal Government has entered discussion with the Joint Committee consisting of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions.
It was learned that the meeting held at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Abuja.
Among those present at the meeting included Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige; SSANU National President, Mohammed Ibrahim; and NASU General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi.
The Non-teaching staff in the universities had earlier announced that they would embark on a nationwide strike from February 5, 2021, on how the Federal Government handled the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), sharing formula of the N40 billion earned academic allowances and non-payment of arrears of the new minimum wage.
Other issues 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.
Also, 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.
