SSANU Tasks Varsities On Prompt Payment Of Salaries, Allowances

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), has called on university authorities to overcome the challenges of paying staff salaries and allowances regularly.

The call, according to the association, was as a result of inconsistencies in the payments of monthly staff salaries into the Integrated Payments and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

While addressing members of the association at its national executive council meeting (NEC), yesterday at the Mohammed Indimi Learning Centre in the University of Maiduguri, SSANU UNIMAID branch chairman, Comrade Mustapha Ngoshe lamented the unnecessary deductions from both taxable and non-taxable wages of university staff across the country.

He added that there was no regular remittance of check-off dues to the various SSANU branches through IPPIS.

On the national minimum wage, the union boss, noted that even the payments of minimum wage arrears to some of the university staff, are yet to be effected up to the 45th meeting of association.

He listed other challenges to be overcome by the universities to include accident bonuses, overtime allowances and the non-remittance of National Pension Fund deducted from other sources, as when due.

“There is also usurpation of duties of non-teaching staff in the university system,” he added.

Declaring the meeting open, UNIMAID vice chancellor, Prof. Aliyu Shugaba, disclosed that: “Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, has become the most peaceful city in the country. The state is a solemn entity, despite the over a decade Boko Haram terrorism that claimed many lives and property.