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FG May Drop IPPIS For ASUU, Others As Opposition Grows

FG May Drop IPPIS For ASUU, Others As Opposition Grows

November 16, 2020 1:48 am

There were indications on Sunday that the Federal Government might adopt any payment platform developed in universities as an alternative to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

The spokesman for the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, who gave this indication in an interview with Newsmen, however, gave conditions for adopting any payment platform apart from the IPPIS.

According to him, the platform must be capable of eliminating ghost workers’ syndrome and other forms of corruption in payment of salaries.

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Akpan stated this as opposition …

FG May Drop IPPIS For ASUU, Others As Opposition Grows

ASUU: Nigeria Govt Moves To Address Complaints On IPPIS

October 21, 2020 4:36 am

The Federal Government said it will set up a five-man committee to holistically study the complaints on the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS) by the unions.

The committee will examine the complaints with a view to harmonising its activities and operations.

Sen. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment made this known as the conclusion reached at the end of the meeting between the Federal Government and the leadership of the Non-Academics Staff Union of Nigerian universities and other stakeholders on Wednesday in Abuja.

The Non-Academics Staff …

FG May Drop IPPIS For ASUU, Others As Opposition Grows

IPPIS: Polytechnic Lecturers Want Lingering Issues Resolved

October 7, 2020 5:39 am

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics (SSANIP), has called on the Federal Government to resolve lingering issues associated with the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

Mr Phillip Ogunsipe, National President of the association, made the call in a communique issued at the end of an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Abuja.

Ogunsipe said that the council-in-session had observed the disjointed implementation of salary payments in the Polytechnics since IPPIS commenced the payment in February.

According to him, some of the lingering issues associated with IPPIS include non-release of new minimum wage arrears and inconsistencies in the release …

Workers In DPR, PPPRA, Others Begin Warning Strike Over IPPIS

FG Discovers 70,000 Ghost Workers Through IPPIS

March 7, 2020 10:11 am

The Federal Government says it has discovered over 70,000 ghost workers in the Federal civil service following the introduction of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this while addressing newsmen at the opening of the 2020 Management Retreat for Treasury Directors of Finance and Directors of Internal Audit in Kano.

According to the minister, with the newly introduced system, Federal Government is hoping to make the system free of ghost workers soon. “I know that we have up to 70,000 ghost workers that have been identified in …

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IPPIS : We’ll Stop Work If FG Stops Our Salary

February 7, 2020 8:52 am

National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Biodun Ogunyemi, has said the union would stop work should the Federal Government halt the payment of salaries of  members over issues pertaining to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

Ogunyemi stated this in Nsukka, yesterday, at a press briefing after addressing ASUU members at the  University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).

He said he was in UNN to brief, interact and share ideas with members on  recent developments in the union waring that public universities would lose their autonomy if they were enrolled in IPPIS.

“ASUU will continue to say …

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FG To ASUU: No Going Back On IPPIS Implementation

February 4, 2020 3:59 am

Federal Government has insisted that there is no going back on the implementation of Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) in the public service.

This is coming on the heels of the Academic Staff Union of Universities  (ASUU) insistence to embark on strike despite government’s backing down on its earlier decision to pay January salary via IPPIS platform.

The Office of the Account-General of the Federation had asked the finance minister not to release funds meant for January salaries to members of the academic community, saying payments would be made through the IPPIS platform.

The union insisted it was …

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I Will Not Reverse IPPIS Policy – Buhari Tells Lecturers

February 2, 2020 8:27 am

President Muhammadu Buhari says the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) cannot be reversed.

The President who emphasised that the policy has come to stay, said the IPPS was a move to block the loopholes in public finances, eliminate fraud and retrieve funds.

Recall that the federal government had ceased the payment of salaries of lecturers yet to enrol in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

ASUU had then vowed to activate its NO PAY NO WORK policy as soon as the government stopped her members’ salaries.

However, speaking at the 29th convocation ceremony of the Federal

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IPPIS: Details Of Buhari’s Meeting With ASUU Emerge

January 10, 2020 2:20 am
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, in Abuja, said Federal Government will give more attention to improving personnel and infrastructure of universities to produce quality graduates, assuring that education will, henceforth, be a top priority in development goals of the country.

President Buhari, who received leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) led by Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi at the State House, said effective and efficient operations of universities will go a long way in improving the economy, especially with focus on science and technology.

The President urged members of ASUU to assist the Federal Government in realising the target of

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Buhari, ASUU Meet In Aso Rock Amid IPPIS Controversy

January 10, 2020 1:16 am

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

The meeting was held behind closed-doors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Disclosing this in a tweet, Buhari’s Special Assistant on New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi wrote: “ASUU meeting with the President this afternoon. Ministers of Education and Finance in attendance. #AsoVillaToday.”

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The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu and his Finance counterpart, Zainab Ahmed were also part of the dignitaries in the meeting.

The meeting is believed to be centered around the Integrated …

Not Even One Unizik Lecturer Enrolled For IPPIS, Says ASUU

December 17, 2019 2:37 pm

The Nnamdi Azikiwe University Branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU says not even a member of the Union from the University enrolled in the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS.

A former chairman of ASUU in the university, Prof Dennis Aribodor told DAILY POST in a private chat that the insinuation that some members had sneaked out to enroll may be true in other universities, but not in Nnamdi Azikiwe University.

Aribodor said, “It is not true. Not even one member of our Union in Unizik went to enroll in IPPIS.

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ASUU To Sanction Members Over IPPIS Enrolment

December 9, 2019 5:20 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is set to sanction its members in about seven universities who defied its directives and enrolled into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System(IPPIS).

It, however, added that notwithstanding the defiance by some of its members in the University of Benin (UNIBEN); Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife; Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State and University of Nsukka, Nsukka, it recorded about 90 per cent compliance with the union’s directive for lecturers to shun the IPPIS enrollment.
The Chairman of ASUU, Usman Dan Fodio University , Sokoto, Dr. Abubakar Sabo Yabo, told THISDAY that …

ASUU, FG Relation Festers Over IPPIS

November 30, 2019 8:16 am

The crisis between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) may not end soon as the union yesterday, said it had received reports of overwhelming compliance of its members nationwide not to enroll in the scheme. The Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of the union, Prof. Deji Omole, in a release made available to THISDAY, said there is a clear evidence that the union is winning the struggle against lawless government and autocratic leadership of the country.  He lauded members across the country for standing on a …

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