NASU Approves IPPIS For Members

The Non-Academic
Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions (NASU) has approved the implementation of the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS) for all its branches.
This was contained in a resolution signed by the union’s deputy president, comrade Wakili Tijani, and Senior Deputy General Secretary Comrade Emma Okonkwor, respectively .
The union stated that virtually all its branches had keyed into the payroll system.
The statement added that the IPPIS needs review since it has inflicted more pains on its membership and the union.
The union said that its branches that have started the implementation of the system had suffered severally as union dues, staff cooperation and other welfare deductions were not made and where they were deducted, such monies were not paid to the union, stressing that the process has tended to stifle the union of fund so as to render it ineffective in service delivery to its members.
The union condemned in its entirety the system and urged the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency, redress the situation if they did not want to incur the wrath of the union.
The union also urged the federal government to devise  a steady means of ensuring an increased flow of resources to the research institutions for the realisation of the aims of government setting up such institutions.
The union stated that part of the agreement it reached with government was the need to increase funding of research institutions.
They urged government to commence the immediate implementation of the agreement reached with the union on the need to increase the annual budgetary allocations to the union and affiliate research institutions across the country in line with the recommendations of UNESCO to approve a special intervention fund, for a period of three years.
The union’s leadership expressed its happiness with the progress recorded so far on the grey areas in the agreement between the government and the unions in the research and allied institutions.
It tasked the government on the payment of the 12 months salary  arrears of CONRAIS once and not to fragment the payment.

Philip Okparaji