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Strike: Drop Your Ego, Accept UTAS, COEASU Tells FG

14Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Finance, News, Nigeria

Strike: Drop Your Ego, Accept UTAS, COEASU Tells FG

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, has advised the federal government to drop its ego and rather embrace the deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, as a payment system in the country. The union, in a statement, Wednesday, said, “The intractable challenge created by the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, has been a great source of worry and constituted one of the major issues prone to the industrial crisis in the College of Education, COE system.” “IPPIS breaches the establishment integrity of the tertiary institution’s system, undermines the statutory functions of the Governing Councils, and opens the payroll up to unilateral manipulations”, it claimed in the statement, signed by its president, D...

UTAS Comment: ASUU Threatens To Withdraw NITDA Boss Degree Certificate

ASUU The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Branch, has threatened to initiate the process of withdrawing the degree certificate of the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency, Kashifu Inuwa, as an alumnus of the university. This withdrawal, the union said, was been considered after Inuwa’s submission that “the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, had failed integrity test, vulnerability test (security integrity), User Acceptance Test and stress load test, as well as the hardware requirements.” The union described his submission, which it claimed, was made on March 9th, 2022, after the Federal Executive Council meeting at the prompting of his boss the Minister of Communication and Digital Econom...

ASUU Strike: UTAS Integrity Test to Take 8 Weeks – Ngige

FG didn’t budget for purchase of UTAS hardware Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and employment has revealed that the integrity test being done to ascertain the efficiency of the software of the University transparency and Accountability Solution being put forward by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would take between six and eight months to be completed. The academic body has been on extended strike in protest against plans by the Federal Government for members of ASUU to enroll on Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) among other issues. ASUU has instead proposed the use of UTAS as an alternative payment system for its members. Ngige while speaking with journalists after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential Villa...