), met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and urged the lecturers to embrace IPPIS with a promise to increase university funding. Recall that ASUU had opposed the IPPIS policy on the grounds that it infringed on university autonomy. Salaries of workers who failed to join the system by October 31 were to be stopped, but university lecturers still got paid in December. However, the Presidency, in a statement after the meeting, said Buhari promised increased funding of the university system to enable it to deliver on its mandate of providing quality education. The statement added that the finance minister advised ASUU at the session to encourage its remaining 40,926 members to comply with the IPPIS.

Source: Punch January 09, 2020 23:15 UTC