FG exempts tertiary institutions from IPPIS

Universities and other higher schools in the country are now free from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information Systems, or IPPIS, thanks to the Federal Executive Council, or FEC, which gave its approval yesterday. This means that the schools can handle the salary matters of their workers by themselves.

The Education Minister, Prof. Mamman Tahir, made this known to the press at the end of the council meeting led by President Bola Tinubu at the Council Chamber, presidential villa in Abuja.

He said the FEC decided to let the schools go from the system because it cared about how well and how fast the schools were run.

He said that the payment system was not liked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and that it was also a headache for the university heads, “slowing down the way they managed the schools.

The minister said that the higher schools had their own laws, so they should have their own freedom.