Breaking: ASUU extends eight-week strike -Officials

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced an eight-week extension to its ongoing strike, accusing the Nigerian government of insensitivity and spreading lies.

The decision was reached during a lengthy meeting of ASUU’s National Executive Council (NEC) that began on Sunday and ended early Monday morning.

The union’s national secretariat at the University of Abuja hosted the NEC meeting.

A member of the NEC who did not want to be identified in order to avoid being sanctioned by the union said that the ASUU leadership is currently drafting a statement, which will be distributed as soon as it is ready.

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“Yes, we have extended the strike by eight weeks pending when the Nigerian government deems the university system worthy of the attention it deserves,” the source said. A statement to that effect is currently being drafted. We’ll make it available as soon as possible.”

ASUU had issued a statement earlier on Sunday in response to the controversy surrounding the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), which its technical team developed to replace the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS), which is currently used to pay its members’ salaries.

It was enraged by the claim of Kashifu Inuwa, the director-general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), who said on Wednesday at the State House that UTAS failed three integrity tests conducted by his agency, including user acceptance, vulnerability, and stress.

“We ran all three tests with them, and the system failed all three.” We completed the reports and returned them to the minister, who forwarded them to all relevant institutions, including ASUU. ASUU is currently working to resolve all of the issues we identified with the system, and we will revisit it. But that’s only half of the story, according to Mr Inuwa.

ASUU, on the other hand, claimed that UTAS received 85 and 77 percent, which it described as “high class grades in any known evaluation system.”

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If NITDA continues to insist that UTAS failed the integrity tests, ASUU has threatened to demand that the initial NITDA Technical Report on UTAS, in which it scored 85 percent in the User Acceptance Test (UAT), be made public.