The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the Federal Government is still using the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System to pay lecturers salaries.
National President, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview, complained that the FG had yet to implement its promise to remove tertiary institutions from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System platform, adding that the February salary was paid through IPPIS.
In December 2023, the FG announced that tertiary institutions including universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education had been exempted from the platform.
The IPPIS unveiled in 2006, is a government initiative aimed at streamlining payroll for government ministries, departments, and agencies.
It was later extended to universities and colleges but was vehemently rejected by the workers who embarked on a protracted strike in 2020, and 2021,
They complained of several irregularities associated with IPPIS.
Osodeke added that none of the union’s demands had been fulfilled.
