FG stops payment of January salary of ASUU members not on IPPIS

The Federal Government has ordered a stop to the payment of the January salary of lecturers and workers in tertiary institutions in Nigeria who failed to enroll in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

The accountant-general of the federation in a letter sent to the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, instructed the Minister not to release funds for January salary of the lecturers who failed to enrol on the IPPIS.

Only lectures enrolled on the centralized payroll system will be paid their January salary.

“l am directed to inform you that the preparation of January 2020 salary payroll and Warrants of the Federal Tertiary institutions are ongoing and will be ready for submission on or before 29th of January, 2020,” the letter read.

"This is to give effect to the directive of the Federal Government that all Ministries, Departments and Agencies drawing Personnel Cost from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) should be enrolled on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

"In order to actualize this directive, you are please requested not to release the Funds for payment of salaries to the Tertiary Institutions as their salaries will henceforth be paid on the IPPIS Platform with effect from January 2020”, the letter read in part.

The directive was given just three weeks after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) held a meeting with members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, at the presidential Villa in Abuja over controversies surrounding IPPIS.