IPPIS: Tell Your Members To Enrol FG Urges ASSU

The Federal Government has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to encourage the remaining 40,926 members to comply with the established process by enrolling in the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, made the appeal on Thursday when President Muhammadu Buhari received the ASUU leadership led by Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi at the State House, Abuja.  Hajiya Ahmed, while speaking at the meeting, said out of the 137,016 academic and non-academic staff members of the universities, 96,090 had already been enrolled in the IPPIS.  The minister, who said a desk had been opened in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation for registration of university staff, gave an assurance that the peculiarities of the tertiary institutions would be accommodated. She said many anomalies were discovered in the university structures that had contributed to the increased cost burden, including staff working and earning pay in more than one university, contract staff on payroll of the government, tax reductions on PAYEE and multiple employments. Ahmed said some universities had rushed to recruit more staff before the IPPIS registration commenced, which was then detected.