The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the exemption of tertiary institutions from the services of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS.
Briefing State House correspondents, the Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, said the exemption was with immediate effect.
He argued that the decision would allow tertiary institutions to maintain their autonomy and function efficiently.
“It has nothing to do with integrity or options of platform. Simply, the President can’t understand why Vice Chancellors should leave their duty posts and be running to Abuja to get staff enlisted in IPPIS, and the basic concern is that universities are governed by law, and those laws give them autonomy in certain respects, but the IPPIS has eroded that autonomy granted to universities under the Act”, he explained.
Professor Tahir Mamman said FEC also approved the removal universities from the supervision of the Head of Service and placed them under the National Universities Commission.
He explained that universities being under the supervision of the Head of Service was not prescribed by law.”That has been a big bottleneck in the management of staff in the universities, where they have to apply to that office whenever there are vacancies, and that has locked up a lot of vacancies in the universities, polytechnics, and that level of service wait in for months, for years, and so from this meeting, that requirement has been removed”,
The Minister expressed the hope that the measures would be responsibly reciprocated.
