{"id":44908,"date":"2020-11-20T20:14:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T19:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=44908"},"modified":"2020-11-20T20:14:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T19:14:58","slug":"breaking-fg-exempts-asuu-from-ippis-raises-allowances-revitalization-fund-to-n60bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/breaking-fg-exempts-asuu-from-ippis-raises-allowances-revitalization-fund-to-n60bn\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: FG Exempts ASUU From IPPIS, Raises Allowances, Revitalization Fund To N60bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of negotiations and foot-dragging, the Federal Government on Friday accepted the demand by the Academic Staff Union of Universities that they be exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.<\/p>\n<p>The government also shifted grounds on a number of issues, including the insistence that all the academic staff of the federal universities must be paid through the IPPIS platform.<\/p>\n<p>Reading out the communique at the end of a seven-hour negotiation with ASUU members in Abuja, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, said the government also agreed to ASUU\u2019s demand to pay their members\u2019 salary arrears from February to June through the old salary payment platform, Government Integrated Financial and Management Information System.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The government also offered to raise the Earned Allowances to university staff from N30bn to N35bn and the revitalization fund from N20bn to N25bn.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough in negotiations is expected to end the eight-month strike embarked on by the university lecturers. 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