How IPPIS will accommodate varsities peculiarities’ – AGF

The federal government has explained that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) is robust enough to accommodate and efficiently address all genuine concerns and peculiarities in the Nigerian universities.

The Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, said this when the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities visited him on Tuesday in Abuja.

The Accountant General, who was responding to concerns raised by the Vice Chancellors based on the recent enrolment of university staff into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), assured that ‘all rules and peculiarities in the universities that are recognized by the government will be accommodated and implemented through IPPIS’.

‘All the peculiarities should be stated, all the rules of engagement should equally be stated; we are ready to go by the rules of engagement. All the rules that are recognized by the government in the universities, we will go by these rules, none will be set aside’, he said.

Idris said the objection by the academic staff of the universities to the IPPIS is unfounded as the federal government had, during many meetings with the universities, assured them that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) was not to take away the autonomy of the universities, but to make the management of personnel more efficient.

He stated that the practice where universities recruited staff not minding whether their budget would accommodate such employment was responsible for the issue of shortfall in personnel revenue. He explained that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) would help the universities solve the problem of shortfall in personnel revenue as the recruitment and remuneration of staff would be more efficient.
Idris said at the end of the last enrollment exercise, a total of 8, 146 academic and 86, 844 non-academic staff of federal universities were enrolled into the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS). He said the figures represented more than 70 per cent of the staff of federal universities.