The Federal Government has finally approved the exemption of Higher Institutions in the country from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS.
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mallam Mohammed Idris stated this while speaking with newsmen after the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council in Abuja.
Mallam Idris explained that the FEC reasoned that the IPPIS did not allow tertiary institutions, including Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education the freedom to run their affairs.
According to the Minister, “Today, the universities and other tertiary institutions have gotten a very big relief from the integrated personnel payroll and information system. You will recall that the university authorities and others have been clamouring for exempting the universities and other tertiary institutions from this system.
“ The Council has graciously approved that. What that means is that going forward, the Universities, the Polytechnics and Colleges of Education will be taken off the IPPIS.
“What that means in simple language is that the university authorities and other tertiary institutions will now pay their personnel from their own end instead of relying on the IPPIS.
Also speaking, Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman said the aim of taking the decision was to allow for efficient running of public educational institutions nationwide.
For some years now, bodies like ASUU and ASUP have been agitating for exclusion of Higher Institutions from the operation of IPPIS, insisting that IPPIS was ‘killing” the institutions.
