By Ayodele Oni
The Federal Government has exited Federal Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education from the Integrated Personnel Payment System (IPPIS).
This was one of the decisions reached on Wednesday during the weekly the Federal Executive Council, (FEC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents alongside other ministers on the outcome of the FEC meeting, and said this takes immediate effect.
According to him, FEC also observed that Vice Chancellors of Universities didn’t need to abandon their work to come to Abuja to process the salaries of their personnel.
Removal from the Central pay system, has been one of the agitations by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) during its members prolonged strike last year.
The IPPIS was introduced by the immediate past administration of President Mohammadu Buhari to curb fraud in the salary system of federal workers.
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