In a bid to reduce challenges facing tertiary institutions in Nigeria, the ministry of education has announced its decision to remove them from the IPPIS scheme
The ministry had made its desire known to the office of the Head of Service.
Now, after perusal, the Federal Government decided to grant that request, removing the tertiary institutions from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, with immediate effect.
Similarly, the institutions are now to recruit their personnel without recourse to the Office of the Head of Service of the federation to reduce the bureaucracy involved in such exercises.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, announced this at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday in Abuja.
He told reporters that this was part of government’s efforts to reduce the challenges facing tertiary institutions across Nigeria pop.
“Today at the council, a most important decision was taken concerning the education sector of the economy.
“The vexatious issue bordering the stakeholders in the sector, including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), was settled.
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“The payment of universities’ staff through IPPIS has been settled and they are now to use their platform to pay their staff.
“They are now to also recruit their staff through normal criteria. They will, however, continue to be supervised by the Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission as is the practice,’’ he said.
FEC Approves NCS Waivers Review
Also, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, told reporters that the FEC approved the review of waivers by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to address the issue of loss of revenue.
“The Federal Government has approved the review of waiver by the Nigeria Customs Service which has been a thing of concern and loss of scarce revenue. The service has observed that the waiver has affected its targets.’’
He said that necessary recommendations would be made to address the issue of Customs waivers in Nigeria. According to him, appropriate measures are expected from such deliberations going forward.
