However, the strike continues as ASUU said it would have to take the proposals to its members for review and possible approval. Neither party provided elaborate details of the agreement.
Labour minister, Chris Ngige, stated that the government had tabled a new proposal regarding the agreement on the Integrated Payroll Personal Information System (IPPIS).
The two-week warning strike which the union declared would elapse on Monday, March 23.
ASUU declared the strike over the non-payment of salaries of their members who failed to enrol into the federal government’s IPPIS, a payroll software mandated for all public officials.
The government last Thursday also reached an interim agreement with striking university lecturers to integrate the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) into the IPPIS.
The IPPIS is the government’s accountability software that has been made compulsory for all public institutions, mainly for personnel payroll.
ASUU is opposed to the use of IPPIS for lecturers saying it does not consider some peculiar operations of universities. The lecturers’ union then developed its own UTAS, which it wants the government to adopt for universities.
Speaking after the meeting, Ngige said the issues discussed ranged from funding, revitalisation of public universities, earned academic allowances and salaries shortfalls.
According to Ngige, they also addressed the payment of earned academic allowances to the University of Ilorin.
