Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti
The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Abayomi Fasina, has commended President Bola Tinubu’s government for removing federal tertiary institution workers from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
Federal universities can now handle staff remunerations independently rather than through the centralised IPPIS platform, which is believed to be limiting the autonomy of the institutions.
The VC stated this when the correspondent chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ekiti presented him an award, ‘Icon of Excellence in the Academia’ in his office, in recognition of his excellent performance as the university’s chief executive officer.
The vice-chancellor described the move as a big relief to the system, pointing out that it would bring effectiveness and efficiency into the running of the system.
“Another advantage is that we want the government to increase our salary, and with this development, we can subsidise such increments with our IGR,” said Fasina. “We are currently poorly paid as lecturers in Nigerian universities. For example, a professor earns less than half a million naira.
He added, “We have the autonomy now, and we would manage our system efficiently on our own. There is so much bureaucracy in IPPIS, which gives us so much headache. We have some of our staff members who haven’t collected their salary for many months now because of that bureaucracy. We have a situation where a former VC who went on sabbatical was denied his salaries on return for several months due to the bottlenecks of IPPIS.”
