FUTA COVID-19 Prevention Protocols, Resumption Guidelines

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  The management of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) has released the COVID-19 prevention protocols and resumption guidelines for all students of the institution. All students are to note the following guidelines for resumption: University Hostels will be opened to accommodate students as from Monday 18th January 2021. No student will be allowed into the hostels earlier than that date.  Hand washing materials will be provided at strategic points within the campus, and students should wash their hands at regular intervals.  Students are to ensure strict compliance with Covid-19 protocols by putting on their facemasks within and outside the University premises, and in this regard, each student is to have at least five (5) sets of washable facemasks.  Each student is to come with hand sanitiser, which should be in his/her possession at all times and be used at intervals. Students are to ensure social distancing by avoiding handshaking, hugging and all ...
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Fight Over N40b Threatens re-opening Of Varsities

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 Hopes of academic activities re-starting  soon in the nation’s public universities appear threatened as the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, has issued a 14-day strike notice to the Federal Government over disparity in sharing the N40 billion Earned Allowances that was recently released for the four university-based unions.

This came as Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, expressed disappointment over government’s refusal to honor its promise to pay arrears of the new national minimum wage approved since April, 2020.

Meanwhile,  Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that NAAT, or any other union should not use it as bait to get anything from the Federal Government, as it advised NAAT or any other staff union to fight their battles their own ways.

"We'll suspend strike if FG pays salaries, complete negotiations" — ASUU

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Hopes of academic activities re-starting  soon in the nation’s public universities appear threatened as the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, has issued a 14-day strike notice to the Federal Government over disparity in sharing the N40 billion Earned Allowances that was recently released for the four university-based unions.

This came as Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, expressed disappointment over government’s refusal to honor its promise to pay arrears of the new national minimum wage approved since April, 2020.

Meanwhile,  Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that NAAT, or any other union should not use it as bait to get anything from the Federal Government, as it advised NAAT or any other staff union to fight their battles their own ways.

Hopes of academic activities re-starting  soon in the nation’s public universities appear threatened as the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, has issued a 14-day strike notice to the Federal Government over disparity in sharing the N40 billion Earned Allowances that was recently released for the four university-based unions.This came as Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, expressed disappointment over government’s refusal to honor its promise to pay arrears of the new national minimum wage approved since April, 2020.

Meanwhile,  Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that NAAT, or any other union should not use it as bait to get anything from the Federal Government, as it advised NAAT or any other staff union to fight their battles their own ways.

Also part of the agenda at the meeting will be the problem associated with the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, the non-implementation of the October 2020 Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, between the member unions and government, as well as the non-payment of outstanding allowances to members.

It will be recalled that FG had allocated 75 per cent of the total N40 billion Earned Allowances to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, leaving 25 per cent for the other three unions to share.

The three unions to share the 25 per cent are NAAT, SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU.

Anger over sharing formula

The development has drawn the ire of the unions and they had threatened to ensure that universities remain under lock and key till the government addresses the alleged imbalance in the sharing formula.

Apart from the disparity in the sharing formula of the N40 billion Earned Allowances, SSANU President, MrMohammed Ibrahim, lamented that nine months after the new minimum wage was approved, his members and other staff of tertiary institutions were yet to be paid arrears of the new wage.

NAAT, on its part is also demanding that the government release 50 per cent of the N71 billion accrued allowance being owed its members from the 2009 agreement reached between government and the union.

NAAT writes FG

His words: “We have written to government that NAAT as a body ought to have been given a specified percentage of the N40 billion. You must define it. You can’t just say ASUU, 75 per cent and others 25 per cent. Let us know the specific percentage you are giving to NAAT as a union.

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