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BREAKING: FG exempts ASUU from IPPIS, increases lecturers’ allowances

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Ibrahim Ramalan
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Ibrahim Ramalan is a graduate of Mass Communications from the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. With nearly a decade-long, active journalism practice, Mr Ramalan has been able to rise from a cub reporter to the exalted position of an editor; first as Arts Editor with the Blueprint Newspapers before resigning in 2019; second and presently as an Associate Editor of the Daily Nigerian online newspaper. He can be reached via ibroramalan@gmail.com, or www.facebook.com/ibrahim.ramalana, or @McRamalan on Twitter.
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The Federal Government on Friday accepted the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, that its members be exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS.

At a meeting with ASUU, the federal government’s side shifted grounds on a number of issues at the end of seven hours negotiations at the conference hall of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.

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According to a communique read by the minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, the government had agreed to ASUU’s demand to pay their members salary arrears from February to June using old salary payment platform, GIFIMS.

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The government also offered to increase the Earned Allowances of university staff from N30 billion to N35 billion and revitalization fund from N20 billion to N25 billion.

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