Federal Executive Council (FEC) has finally approved the removal of public tertiary institutions from the integrated payroll and personnel information system (IPPIS), the payment platform which generated so much controversy between government and various in the public university system in Nigeria
Edu-Biznews recalled that the payment platform introduced by the immediate past administration of Mohammadu Buhari was strongly resisted by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) who described it as introgressive to the survival of public university system in the country suggesting to the government to replace the platform with another payment platform, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS), designed locally by the union which the administration rejected
The Minister of Information,
Mohammed Idris, announced the decision of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration to newsmen, after end of FEC meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja on Wednesday
Idris said the development means that members of staff of public universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education have been taken off IPPIS.
The minister said authorities of tertiary institutions would now be paying their personnel from their own end rather than relying on IPPIS.
“Today, the universities and other tertiary institutions have gotten a very big relief from the integrated payroll and personnel information system,” the minister stated .
“You will recall that the university authorities and the others have been clamouring for the exemption of the universities and other tertiary institutions from this system.
“Today, the council has graciously approved that. What that means is that going forward, the universities and other tertiary institutions, 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 be paying their own personnel from their own end instead of relying on the IPPIS.”
The federal government, in October 2006, introduced the IPPIS as one of its reform initiatives for the effective storage of personnel records, transparency, and accountability.
In 2020, there were 696 ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAS) on the IPPIS platform.
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