Buhari speaks on two-week warning strike by ASUU over IPPIS

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has reacted to the two-week warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System, IPPIS.

Speaking on Thursday at the 14th convocation ceremony of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State, Buhari stated that the ASUU's fight against the IPPIS was needless.

Represented by Prof Abubakar Rasheed, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, Buhari said: “I will not end this address without touching on IPPIS, which has been in contention and a needless one at that.

“I assure you all that IPPIS is not intended to trample upon university autonomy nor is it designed to subsume the university into the civil service.

“The primary intention of IPPIS is to enhance greater efficiency, transparency and better management of Universities finances.”