Nigeria: FG only implemented 10% of agreement said ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, said the Federal Government had only implemented 10 per cent of the agreement the parties entered into in 2009, even as it lamented that there was no law yet on the 70 years retirement age for university professors.
Speaking after a meeting of ASUU’s executive at Ekiti State University,  Ado-Ekiti,  President,  ASUU,Profesor Ukachukwu Awuzie,  said: “We are now almost at the end of the three year lifespan of the agreement and less than 10 per cent of the agreement has been implemented.
Some of the outstanding areas not implemented, according to him, include funding requirement for revitalising the nation’s university system, provision for progressive increase of annual budgetary allocation to education to 26 per cent between 2009 and 2020.
Awuzie declared that ASUU members would not subscribe to the implementation and running of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information (IPPS), as required by the Federal Government, saying “the union has directed that none of its members should subscribe to IPPS. It is the opinion of this union that Nigerian workers that are being forced to this scheme have a right to choose if they wish to be  guinea pigs in this experiment.”