. President Bola Tinubu
News reaching NOTM online indicated that the Federal Government has finally removed tertiary institutions from the controversial Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) with immediate effect.
Also, the institutions are reported to be now free to recruit their personnel without recourse to the Office of the Head of Service of the federation.
All these, NOTM online gathered are aimed at reducing bureaucracy involved in those exercises.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday in Abuja.
He told journalists that this was part of government efforts to reduce the challenges facing tertiary institutions across the country.
‘’Today at council, a most important decision was taken concerning the education sector of the economy. The vexatious issue bordering the stakeholders in the sector, including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), was settled.
‘’The payment of universities staff through IPPIS has been settled and they are now to use their platform to pay their staff.
‘’They are now to also recruit their staff through normal criteria. They will, however, continue to be supervised by the Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission as is the practice,’’ he said.
