Lecturers set to resist new payroll plans

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has vowed to resist any attempt by the federal government of Nigeria to impose the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) on university lecturers in the country, reports Ripples Nigeria.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari had directed all ministries, departments and agencies, including universities, drawing their personnel cost from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to enrol in the IPPIS. The president also demonstrated his determination to enforce the system by issuing a directive that any federal government worker not captured on the IPPIS by 31 October would not be paid his monthly salary. According to him, the introduction of the system was part of his administration’s efforts at managing personnel costs in line with its anti-graft crusade.

To counter the president’s directive, ASUU summoned an emergency national executive council meeting where they resolved that the leadership of the union at university levels should begin mobilisation of members across the country for effective action on the matter. The chairman of the University of Ibadan Chapter of ASUU, Professor Deji Omole, told journalists at a briefing that the union was not against accountability but would resist the attempt by the government to violate existing laws and the autonomy of the university.
Full report on the Ripples Nigeria site