LudaChriz:

They've all been paid. Na only federal higher institutions waka com

Ok...did institutions offend Ippis?

It's obvious Ippis is d one delaying this payment

Thy should pay tmfirst and keep sorting out d ones with issuee

amanda2013:
They have paid other federal ministries and agencies even corpers sef

They have paid all except universities, polytechnics and colleges of education

UPDATE ON DELAY OF MARCH SALARY AND REASONS
Arising from an emergency Expanded National Executive Council (ENEC) meeting of SSUCOEN held between Tuesday 25th and Thursday 27th March 2020 in Abuja, there were decisions reached on the followings which are the highlights of issues that arose in Federal Colleges of Education after the payment of February Salary through the IPPIS.
1. There were cases of overpayments, underpayments and payments to non staff members across the Colleges.
2. Many staff across colleges were not paid Feb salary at all
3. Non implementation of 2019 promotion/payment of the arrears on the IPPIS platform
4. Partial implementation of CONMESS/CONHESS for medical staffs
5. Refusal to implement non statutory deductions esp. Coop and bank loans
6. Non payment of staff on sabbatical appointment
7. Burdensome tax deduction
8. Forceful enrolment into National Housing Fund
9. Increment of Union due to 2%
10. Non payment of minimum wage arrears
[4/1, 4:45 PM] Chairman SSUCOEN , Neyo: The likelihood of errors in the payment of Feb salary led to the directive from the IPPIS to Bursars to collate all complaints and issues therein and forward appropriately. This had been done in our college, kudos to the salary and wages team not leaving out the Bursar too.
Nevertheless, the ENEC took the following decisions to be implemented by IPPIS before the payment of March salary
1. All issues of overpayments and underpayments to be addressed appropriately and arrears paid with March salary. Likewise, overpayments to be deducted reasonably.
Payment to non staff of colleges to be investigated. This is fraud and the supposed corruption IPPIS we are made to believe will fight is back through the back door even from Day 1
2. All members yet to be paid Feb salary are to be paid double salary in March.
3. All Colleges yet to implement 2019 promotion are to paid 5 months arrears with implementation commencing March 2020
4. CONMESS/CONHESS are to be implemented fully with its component allowances and arrears of Feb salary paid with March salary.
5. All non-statutory deductions for March to be compiled by Bursaries and forward to IPPIS office for implementation
6. Sabbatical staff are to be paid double salary in March.
7. While IPPIS insisted it used the current tax computations to deduct tax, the union disagreed that no tax relief was taken into consideration and insisted that the tax be reviewed downwards. The union will cooperate with sister unions in tertiary institutions to achieve this and a possible industrial action.
8. The union noted that NHF is a law (1992) reviewed in 2004 and 2018 although the last one was yet to be assented by the president. (Google this pls). It stipulates 2.5% monthly mandatory contribution of all workers. There are some colleges already on the fund before the coming of IPPIS while the system brought the rest of us in compulsorily.
The union could not reach an agreement on opting out because of those colleges already contributing and insisted that the Fund has been beneficial to members there with loan facility of up to 5 million naira payable over 6 years.
While our College is the only one that opted for total exit, others not yet on the Fund wanted a voluntary membership of staff and those hitherto on the Fund wanted full enforcement of membership for all SSUCOEN members across colleges. It was a stalemate.
The president was then empowered to liaise with NASU, SSANU ASUP and SSANIP in having a common front to be binding on all members. BUT the best we can get is voluntary membership.
9. The president informed the Council that 2% union due was effected by the IPPIS unilaterally for all unions across tertiary institutions AND not a directive of our union.
While COEASU and NASU had insisted that there won't be a reversal, it was a 'war' sort of during plenary with just 3 Chapters (FCES inclusive) opting for a reversal to 1%, 1 Chapter indifferent and 13 Chapters for continuation of 2%.
The president, based on the convincing argument put up by the minority pleaded for a reversal to 1% while the decision on 2%will be taken at a later date. This was our final position.
10. The union insisted that minimum wage arrears should only be paid after all complaints and corrections might have been done in March salary to forestall members being cheated.
11. The coming back of Peculiar allowance, the percentage and the undercurrent will be discussed at the next Congress meeting
There could be some delays in the payment of March salary due to all these issues raised and the need to address them coupled with the skeletal operation of Abuja now viz a viz Corona virus pandemic. We are torn between early March salary payment with likely errors/burdensome deductions or late payment to give room for all corrections and negotiations.
The president pleads for this week to have a clearer picture of March salary payment.
Thank you and God keep you safe
Signed
Chairman

Rahym001:
UPDATE ON DELAY OF MARCH SALARY AND REASONS
Arising from an emergency Expanded National Executive Council (ENEC) meeting of SSUCOEN held between Tuesday 25th and Thursday 27th March 2020 in Abuja, there were decisions reached on the followings which are the highlights of issues that arose in Federal Colleges of Education after the payment of February Salary through the IPPIS.
1. There were cases of overpayments, underpayments and payments to non staff members across the Colleges.
2. Many staff across colleges were not paid Feb salary at all
3. Non implementation of 2019 promotion/payment of the arrears on the IPPIS platform
4. Partial implementation of CONMESS/CONHESS for medical staffs
5. Refusal to implement non statutory deductions esp. Coop and bank loans
6. Non payment of staff on sabbatical appointment
7. Burdensome tax deduction
8. Forceful enrolment into National Housing Fund
9. Increment of Union due to 2%
10. Non payment of minimum wage arrears
[4/1, 4:45 PM] Chairman SSUCOEN , Neyo: The likelihood of errors in the payment of Feb salary led to the directive from the IPPIS to Bursars to collate all complaints and issues therein and forward appropriately. This had been done in our college, kudos to the salary and wages team not leaving out the Bursar too.
Nevertheless, the ENEC took the following decisions to be implemented by IPPIS before the payment of March salary
1. All issues of overpayments and underpayments to be addressed appropriately and arrears paid with March salary. Likewise, overpayments to be deducted reasonably.
Payment to non staff of colleges to be investigated. This is fraud and the supposed corruption IPPIS we are made to believe will fight is back through the back door even from Day 1
2. All members yet to be paid Feb salary are to be paid double salary in March.
3. All Colleges yet to implement 2019 promotion are to paid 5 months arrears with implementation commencing March 2020
4. CONMESS/CONHESS are to be implemented fully with its component allowances and arrears of Feb salary paid with March salary.
5. All non-statutory deductions for March to be compiled by Bursaries and forward to IPPIS office for implementation
6. Sabbatical staff are to be paid double salary in March.
7. While IPPIS insisted it used the current tax computations to deduct tax, the union disagreed that no tax relief was taken into consideration and insisted that the tax be reviewed downwards. The union will cooperate with sister unions in tertiary institutions to achieve this and a possible industrial action.
8. The union noted that NHF is a law (1992) reviewed in 2004 and 2018 although the last one was yet to be assented by the president. (Google this pls). It stipulates 2.5% monthly mandatory contribution of all workers. There are some colleges already on the fund before the coming of IPPIS while the system brought the rest of us in compulsorily.
The union could not reach an agreement on opting out because of those colleges already contributing and insisted that the Fund has been beneficial to members there with loan facility of up to 5 million naira payable over 6 years.
While our College is the only one that opted for total exit, others not yet on the Fund wanted a voluntary membership of staff and those hitherto on the Fund wanted full enforcement of membership for all SSUCOEN members across colleges. It was a stalemate.
The president was then empowered to liaise with NASU, SSANU ASUP and SSANIP in having a common front to be binding on all members. BUT the best we can get is voluntary membership.
9. The president informed the Council that 2% union due was effected by the IPPIS unilaterally for all unions across tertiary institutions AND not a directive of our union.
While COEASU and NASU had insisted that there won't be a reversal, it was a 'war' sort of during plenary with just 3 Chapters (FCES inclusive) opting for a reversal to 1%, 1 Chapter indifferent and 13 Chapters for continuation of 2%.
The president, based on the convincing argument put up by the minority pleaded for a reversal to 1% while the decision on 2%will be taken at a later date. This was our final position.
10. The union insisted that minimum wage arrears should only be paid after all complaints and corrections might have been done in March salary to forestall members being cheated.
11. The coming back of Peculiar allowance, the percentage and the undercurrent will be discussed at the next Congress meeting
There could be some delays in the payment of March salary due to all these issues raised and the need to address them coupled with the skeletal operation of Abuja now viz a viz Corona virus pandemic. We are torn between early March salary payment with likely errors/burdensome deductions or late payment to give room for all corrections and negotiations.
The president pleads for this week to have a clearer picture of March salary payment.
Thank you and God keep you safe
Signed
Chairman

My people, just tighten your seatbelts because it's gonna be a very loonnng ride to freedom

What of hazard allowance , will it be implemented in the next salary. Plus why is NAAT as a union silent about this whole issue. Biko my hazard allowance should not miss road Oooooo.

We don enter one chance with this ippis.... ����

Singleatom:
Any technologist in the house? Any news about payment of hazard and call duty allowances with our salary?

plz are technologists entitled to called duty How much

Mrgreatness:
plz are technologists entitled to called duty How much

yes.the amount u receive depends on ur level. I am a technologist and I receive call duty allowance.

chyomy:
What of hazard allowance , will it be implemented in the next salary. Plus why is NAAT as a union silent about this whole issue. Biko my hazard allowance should miss road Oooooo.

i'm just suprised with the way NAAT is keeping shut about the whole thing. Or are they working behind the scene without us knowing?

Mrgreatness:
plz are technologists entitled to called duty How much

only those under medical are entitled to it. if your department does not fall under medical, then you are not entitled to it.

Singleatom:

yes.the amount u receive depends on ur level. I am a technologist and I receive call duty allowance.

call duty is for medical doctors. Technologists are paid hazard allowance. Even Nurses don't collect call duty but shift allowance.

Lmao IPPIS has quarantined our March salary in Abuja. This is a long thing ohhhh. Anyway, Buhari has ordered prompt payment of workers salary. Let's see if this would hasten IPPIS guys to pay us sooner.

Rahym001:
UPDATE ON DELAY OF MARCH SALARY AND REASONS
Arising from an emergency Expanded National Executive Council (ENEC) meeting of SSUCOEN held between Tuesday 25th and Thursday 27th March 2020 in Abuja, there were decisions reached on the followings which are the highlights of issues that arose in Federal Colleges of Education after the payment of February Salary through the IPPIS.
1. There were cases of overpayments, underpayments and payments to non staff members across the Colleges.
2. Many staff across colleges were not paid Feb salary at all
3. Non implementation of 2019 promotion/payment of the arrears on the IPPIS platform
4. Partial implementation of CONMESS/CONHESS for medical staffs
5. Refusal to implement non statutory deductions esp. Coop and bank loans
6. Non payment of staff on sabbatical appointment
7. Burdensome tax deduction
8. Forceful enrolment into National Housing Fund
9. Increment of Union due to 2%
10. Non payment of minimum wage arrears
[4/1, 4:45 PM] Chairman SSUCOEN , Neyo: The likelihood of errors in the payment of Feb salary led to the directive from the IPPIS to Bursars to collate all complaints and issues therein and forward appropriately. This had been done in our college, kudos to the salary and wages team not leaving out the Bursar too.
Nevertheless, the ENEC took the following decisions to be implemented by IPPIS before the payment of March salary
1. All issues of overpayments and underpayments to be addressed appropriately and arrears paid with March salary. Likewise, overpayments to be deducted reasonably.
Payment to non staff of colleges to be investigated. This is fraud and the supposed corruption IPPIS we are made to believe will fight is back through the back door even from Day 1
2. All members yet to be paid Feb salary are to be paid double salary in March.
3. All Colleges yet to implement 2019 promotion are to paid 5 months arrears with implementation commencing March 2020
4. CONMESS/CONHESS are to be implemented fully with its component allowances and arrears of Feb salary paid with March salary.
5. All non-statutory deductions for March to be compiled by Bursaries and forward to IPPIS office for implementation
6. Sabbatical staff are to be paid double salary in March.
7. While IPPIS insisted it used the current tax computations to deduct tax, the union disagreed that no tax relief was taken into consideration and insisted that the tax be reviewed downwards. The union will cooperate with sister unions in tertiary institutions to achieve this and a possible industrial action.
8. The union noted that NHF is a law (1992) reviewed in 2004 and 2018 although the last one was yet to be assented by the president. (Google this pls). It stipulates 2.5% monthly mandatory contribution of all workers. There are some colleges already on the fund before the coming of IPPIS while the system brought the rest of us in compulsorily.
The union could not reach an agreement on opting out because of those colleges already contributing and insisted that the Fund has been beneficial to members there with loan facility of up to 5 million naira payable over 6 years.
While our College is the only one that opted for total exit, others not yet on the Fund wanted a voluntary membership of staff and those hitherto on the Fund wanted full enforcement of membership for all SSUCOEN members across colleges. It was a stalemate.
The president was then empowered to liaise with NASU, SSANU ASUP and SSANIP in having a common front to be binding on all members. BUT the best we can get is voluntary membership.
9. The president informed the Council that 2% union due was effected by the IPPIS unilaterally for all unions across tertiary institutions AND not a directive of our union.
While COEASU and NASU had insisted that there won't be a reversal, it was a 'war' sort of during plenary with just 3 Chapters (FCES inclusive) opting for a reversal to 1%, 1 Chapter indifferent and 13 Chapters for continuation of 2%.
The president, based on the convincing argument put up by the minority pleaded for a reversal to 1% while the decision on 2%will be taken at a later date. This was our final position.
10. The union insisted that minimum wage arrears should only be paid after all complaints and corrections might have been done in March salary to forestall members being cheated.
11. The coming back of Peculiar allowance, the percentage and the undercurrent will be discussed at the next Congress meeting
There could be some delays in the payment of March salary due to all these issues raised and the need to address them coupled with the skeletal operation of Abuja now viz a viz Corona virus pandemic. We are torn between early March salary payment with likely errors/burdensome deductions or late payment to give room for all corrections and negotiations.
The president pleads for this week to have a clearer picture of March salary payment.
Thank you and God keep you safe
Signed
Chairman

roman1755:
call duty is for medical doctors. Technologists are paid hazard allowance. Even Nurses don't collect call duty but shift allowance.

Even when I told u I receive call duty allowance,u are still arguing.

Singleatom:

Even when I told u I receive call duty allowance,u are still arguing.

okay

Hello everyone,
What is the update today? Any latest information today about payment?
Update please.

The update is they are still busy sharing money with the 'poor' in the society.

I also hope this 2%deductions does not include technologist. I hope that when all things are finalised, techs won't suffer ooo. Our harzard allowance should be paid. These unions can be funny at times. All these dues deductions they are just fighting for is for the benefit of who. Ippis should deduct tax and pension, then pay us our salaries...... This wait is over taxing. NAAT is just silent, please o, they should pay us our money. I am tired of checking my phone when it beeps.

Today is going again we have not seen any sign of salary payment. I hope with this delay they will implement our earned allowances .

adewale4jesus:
Today is going again we have not seen any sign of salary payment. I hope with this delay they will implement our earned allowances .

the way I am seeing this salary issue is that it may linger till 10th of April or thereabout

roman1755:
the way I am seeing this salary issue is that it may linger till 10th of April or thereabout

But government should justify the delay by paying us all allowances and minimum wage arreas

adewale4jesus:


But government should justify the delay by paying us all allowances and minimum wage arreas

I don't see the arrears being paid for now

No feedback from Ippis, I don't think they have PRO officer for the place self. They will still commit blunders when they pay salary no matter the delay, foolish people.


A source close to the Nigerian University Administrative and Technical Staff Union (NUATSU), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife revealed that correction being made with adjustment to February salary paid necessitate the delay in March salary in order to address the irregularities that marred previous salary paid on IPPIS so every worker can receive the correct payment for March salary before the implementation of new minimum wage in April and the further payment of it's arrears.

Workers across federal tertiary institutions are anxious to receive March salary considering the hike in food commodity during the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic across the country.

Does this mean the new minimum wage hasn't been implemented?

Smokey5:



A source close to the Nigerian University Administrative and Technical Staff Union (NUATSU), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife revealed that correction being made with adjustment to February salary paid necessitate the delay in March salary in order to address the irregularities that marred previous salary paid on IPPIS so every worker can receive the correct payment for March salary before the implementation of new minimum wage in April and the further payment of it's arrears.

Workers across federal tertiary institutions are anxious to receive March salary considering the hike in food commodity during the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic across the country.

I'm confused
Does it means the NMW hasn't been implemented

Smokey5:



A source close to the Nigerian University Administrative and Technical Staff Union (NUATSU), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife revealed that correction being made with adjustment to February salary paid necessitate the delay in March salary in order to address the irregularities that marred previous salary paid on IPPIS so every worker can receive the correct payment for March salary before the implementation of new minimum wage in April and the further payment of it's arrears.

Workers across federal tertiary institutions are anxious to receive March salary considering the hike in food commodity during the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic across the country.

the food sef don dey scarce, was at a supermarket this evening, most commodities are of the shelves...

I was telling u guys that minimum wage has not been implemented but some seem to believe the contrary opinions. Let's just wait as the whole event unfolds

I don't understand why you guys keep confusing yourselves. Someone days ago posted a copy of his payslip in which minimum wage reflected on the salary received. Only time will tell sha.

I read this news story on The Nation and I became confused on what is happening.
It's today's edition of The Nation.


Let’s starve lecturers to death!
by Alao Abiodun 18 hours ago




By Alade Fawole
Let me state it very plainly: I subscribe to President Muhammadu Buhari’s government’s policy that Nigerian university scholars need to be starved to death! I am so strongly persuaded, and I urge you to be patient as I explain.

First of all, and unambiguously, this nation does not need universities! What does a rent-collecting state that depends wholly on proceeds of oil and gas being exploited by fraudulent and thieving foreign oil corporations need universities for? What functions will they perform in a nation that does not desire development? Frankly, they are totally irrelevant, if you ask me. Unfortunately, we have deluded ourselves and established several universities with public funds, that should ordinarily have ended up in the bank accounts of our leaders, and now we are saddled with them as a national headache. Any wonder why governments have always turned a deaf ear to the irritating demands of the university lecturers?


Since the government may not be able to totally erase these inconvenient institutions we call universities by stroke of the pen, the easiest way to destroy them is to begin by slowly and incrementally starving the lecturers to death. By this the government would succeed in ridding itself of this singularly irritating sector, so that it can focus on other more pressing issues. And there would also be more money for our sybaritic elites to spend. I encourage President Buhari to help Nigeria get rid of its scholars who are nothing but a pain in the neck. They are arrogant, pushy, opinionated and make demands on the government as if they and their universities are the only responsibility the government has. I mean, why should we continue to tolerate their monotonous agitation for adequate funding of the universities? When will they ever get it into their thick skulls that funding the universities will mean less money to satisfy the hedonistic lifestyles of elected and appointed government officials and their families? One would expect that with all their researches and intellectual exertions, they would have realized that this nation does not need them.

The main preoccupation of the ruling class elites is to plunder the national patrimony. And whenever they want their usually disastrous offspring to attend universities, they send them abroad, or to private universities at home to be awarded unearned degrees. I say ‘unearned degrees’ not necessarily because their children are unwilling to learn, although it is true that many are not, but because in these poorly staffed and ill-equipped, profit-oriented business enterprises called private universities, degrees can actually be purchased without much academic exertion. For example, the Department of Chemistry of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, alone parades more professors than the total number in some private universities. Even though many of these private universities which the children of the elites attend, have very few students, they also comparatively award the highest number of first class honours per capita. For them, awarding first class honours is a marketing strategy.

Even though private universities outnumber public (federal and state) universities, yet they collectively, according to the NUC Executive Secretary Professor Abubakar Rasheed, have less than six percent of the overall undergraduate population of about two million as of 2018. And their share is dwindling as avenues for official corruption are closing against treasury looters. Again, according to the Executive Secretary, the intake into the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in one year is more than the numbers that all the private universities combined enrolled in four years! The implication is that these same poorly funded public universities, whose lecturers the government would rather starve to death over a disagreement, have more 90 percent of the entire undergraduate student population!

If only Nigerians have been paying attention to these disturbing statistics, they would have come to the reality that it is the future of their own children that the ruling class is destroying by not funding the universities and by starving their lecturers. Regrettably, Nigerians always wrongly blame the lecturers and uncritically support whatever strong-arm tactics the government employs against them. Many do so out of sheer inferiority complex, believing that university academics are too arrogant and pushy, thus deserving to be pulled down from their high horses. Others are simply ignorant about what universities are, equating them with secondary schools, and thus failing to see what makes lecturers different from other teachers. And, of course, there are the members of the ruling class who love to hold the nation in darkness and ignorance while their mindless accumulation of illicit wealth from the national patrimony goes on unhindered.

Pardon the digression. Now back to the issue of starvation at hand. Salaries of public university lecturers have been punitively stopped for two months now, and the nation’s business continues as usual. Salaries have been stopped by the federal government allegedly because of the lecturers’ refusal to be forcefully migrated unto a payment platform that has been convincingly proved to be highly defective, that violates university autonomy (as enacted and signed into law) and provisions of subsisting negotiated agreements which the government has bluntly refused to implement, among others. Sadly, not even the parents and guardians whose offspring and wards would suffer the adverse consequences of this policy seem perturbed by it. At least no protest from any quarters. All is well and good, after all it is only lecturers. They can be dispensed with anyway.

Punitive salary stoppage and other strong-arm methods have been the veritable means of addressing industrial disputes and disagreements since the early 1970s. The starvation that comes with it is the potent means for Nigerian governments, military and civilian alike, to deal particularly with protesting university academics. Whenever government policies and actions push the university teachers to strike as the only remaining option, governments characteristically revert to this default setting: salary stoppage! I can personally remember my salary having been stopped no fewer than 13 times, sometimes up to six months at a time, in the 37 years that I have been a university teacher. In case you are wondering why government officials are never mindful of how counterproductive this method is, it is because the nation does not need universities. Unfortunately, though, the same nation will turn around to blame the universities for not contributing to national development, and parents will expect starved and starving teachers who cannot feed their own families to work magic, while their family members are advised to wait till heaven for their rewards.

My honest and heartfelt advice to the federal government on the current face-off with the universities: let us totally ignore the lecturers and whatever fate may befall their families even as the raging coronavirus pandemic continue to wreak havoc on the nation. Nigeria will be better off if we starve to death the nuisance called lecturers even if the coronavirus pandemic may spare many of them. It is the quickest and permanent way to rid this nation of the headache that universities and lecturers have become. And we don’t have to look for fancy explanation for the mass extermination of irritating academics since the coronavirus pandemic is available to be blamed. This is the best time to execute the final solution, one Hitler himself would be immensely proud of.

Prof Fawole writes from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Smokey5:



A source close to the Nigerian University Administrative and Technical Staff Union (NUATSU), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife revealed that correction being made with adjustment to February salary paid necessitate the delay in March salary in order to address the irregularities that marred previous salary paid on IPPIS so every worker can receive the correct payment for March salary before the implementation of new minimum wage in April and the further payment of it's arrears.

Workers across federal tertiary institutions are anxious to receive March salary considering the hike in food commodity during the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic across the country.

This update is fake!! NMW has been paid.

blessedjohn:
I don't understand why you guys keep confusing yourselves. Someone days ago posted a copy of his payslip in which minimum wage reflected on the salary received. Only time will tell sha.

my brother, I don't know of others, NMW reflected on my February salary and those of other staff in my institution. I earned consolidated of 129,540 in January salary and 150252 in February salary. Contediss 9 step 3,FCE.

blessedjohn:
I don't understand why you guys keep confusing yourselves. Someone days ago posted a copy of his payslip in which minimum wage reflected on the salary received. Only time will tell sha.

That's Nigerians for you! Even when you do the calculations for them, show them every proof, they will still argue. Ask them to bring evidence and facts to buttress their argument, they will accuse you of thinking that you know too much.