The rising hope among students and parents of an end to the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU strike, maybe quashed following fresh threats by the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, to cripple activities over earn allowances sharing.
The President of the SSANU, Mohammed Haruna, at a briefing in Abuja noted that the claim by the ASUU that any released earned allowances by the government is only for lecturers is laughable.
Haruna has also been criticising the Federal Ministry of Education in yet to be resolved issues surrounding the 80 and 20 per cent sharing formula in previously released earned allowances to all university staff.
On the controversial Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, SSANU is threatening to shut down universities, should the government tries to subject it to an alternative payment platform being proposed by the ASUU, which is the Universities Transpiracy and Accountability Solution, UTAS.
The SSANU and the Non-Teaching Staff of Nigerian Universities, NASU, which have also rejected the IPPIS for failing to capture their peculiarities are also pushing for their own alternative; the University General Peculiar Payroll and Personnel System, UG3PS.
The Federal Government had met with the ASUU severally since it began a strike on March 23, 2020, with the outcome of the last engagement likely to force the lecturers back to the classrooms, but a threat by the SSANU and NASU may cause a setback and quash the hope of returning to school this year for highly anticipating students.