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General News of Friday, 6 March 2020

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February salary of lecturers not enrolled in IPPIS will not be paid - Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed

Zainab Ahmed Zainab Ahmed

Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed has said that the February salary of lecturers who are not enrolled in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System(IPPIS) will not be paid.

Speaking in Kano at the opening ceremony of a management retreat on Thursday, the minister stated that the aim of IPPIS is to checkmate corruption.

She also revealed that 55 per cent of lecturers have enrolled despite resistance from the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

he said, “unfortunately most reforms that you undertake you come across resistance. We have had resistance from ASUU on the implementation of the IPPIS and I am happy to report that at least up to 55 percent of ASUU members are registered and the ones that have not are not getting their February salary.

“It is in eliminating ghost workers because you register on the IPPIS using biometrics and we are currently working with the office of the head of service to link up the IPPIS HR management module with the payroll itself. It will help us better maximise the efficiency of the system.

“I know that we have up to 70,000 ghost workers that have been identified in this process and we hope that we will come to a time when we will say that we have no ghost workers.”