₦airaland Forum

kolafolabi:
In a month's time, it will be reported that Boko Haram has hijacked half of the vehicles.

True talk

chrischukszy01:
Pls update on USA n Iran war... any other news we no want. Pls wen is d ww3 starting Biko?

MUMU SO YOU ARE PRAYING FOR WAR......? I PRAY YOU AND YOUR SIBLINGS BECOMES A VICTIM

helinues:
Nigerian footballer

Has he played for Nigeria before?

No mind that stupid post..NA UPPER VOLTA footballer ni

FOR a long time, the Federal Government had no accurate and reliable data on personnel in the civil service. This resulted in inaccurate budgeting for recurrent expenditures and other challenges.
In an attempt to reduce and possibly eliminate these problems, the government introduced the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) to be implemented in phases.
In 1999, after the country’s return to democratic rule, the government carried out a Public Service Reform (PSR) study and the result was the development of the National Strategy for Public Service Reform (NSPSR) in 2003.
The strategy was to be implemented through four cardinal programmes known as the four pillars of NSPSR. Pillar three was aimed at “implementing a public financial management reform to achieve strategic, efficient and effective mobilisation, allocation and use of public resources, fiscal discipline, transparency, integrity and accountability through timely reporting”.
To achieve this pillar, the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFFMIS) and the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) were created. These are digital-based programme aimed at Public Financial Management (PFM) and the Human Resource and Payroll issues at the federal level.
Thus, IPPIS is a form of identity system management aimed at providing a centralised database to support personal planning and decision making, automated storage of personnel records to aid staff enrolment, and monitoring against budgeting and prevention of wastages and leakages based on factual personnel records and information (www.oagf.gov.ng/IPPIS).
IPPIS captures facial images, fingerprints of government employees, and stored in a digitalised data-based library which can be accessed with authorisation anywhere.
IPPIS was a reform initiative conceived to position the public service for improved efficiency and productivity. It was rolled out in 2007 with seven pilot Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) and has since been expanded to cover 506 MDAs with total staff strength of 344,625 as at September last year.
IPPIS Secretariat is a department under the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation. It is responsible for payment of salaries and wages directly to government employee’s bank account with appropriate deductions and remittances of third party payments such as the Federal Inland Revenue Service, State Boards of Internal Revenue, National Health Insurance Scheme, National Housing Fund, Pension Fund Administrator, Cooperative Societies, Trade Unions Dues, Association Dues and Bank Loans.
The department is responsible for processing and payment of salary to over Three hundred thousand (300,000) Federal Government Employees across the 506 MDAs. IPPIS aims to enrol into the platform, all Federal Government MDAs that draws personnel cost fund from the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
Since the inception of the IPPIS project in April 2007, the department claims it has saved the Federal Government billions of Naira by eliminating thousands of ghost workers.
A study carried out by Lucky Izobo Enakirerhi and Sunny O Temile stated that “accurate and reliable personnel information, reduction or elimination of corrupt and sharp practices, facilitation of modern scientific and accurate budgeting and forecasting are the major benefits of IPPIS. These benefits are, however, threatened by skills transfer problem, poor supporting infrastructure, technological barriers for inter-MDAs transfer, resistance from stakeholders and lack of will for accelerated implementation.”
They argued that “accelerated and unbiased implementation that will enable smooth transfer of the IPPIS technology knowledge and skills from consultants to government personnel for effective management, future integration and synchronising of IPPIS with other identity management system are keys to harnessing the benefits of the project.”
From audit carried out through IPPIS implementation, the Budget Office of the Federation and the National Planning Commission were among the government agencies that had high incidences of ghost workers with 77.3 per cent and 74.9 per cent of names on payroll being ghost workers.
“This means that in 2017, the overhead cost of running these two agencies would be reduced by over 75 per cent due to the implementation of IPPIS,” the scholars said.
Under the old manual and filing system, some unscrupulous workers were collecting salaries from multiple salaries from different government sources, or not working with the government. Inaccurate and unreliable information characterized the old manual and file-based system, resulting in padded overhead cost, double pay and other sharp practices. This meant that the government did not know the number of its workforce resulting in budgeting and estimation difficulties.
Enakirerhi and Temile added that “the file-based system is marred with over-estimation of ministerial budgeting and thereby fuelling corruption in two ways, falsification of age and certificate of the local government of origin (indigeneship) due to ease of replacement of file records and other sharp practices. Introduction of IPPIS helps reduce these menace as payrolling would be central and directly to employees’ private accounts.”
The implementation of IPPIS has not been without challenges. Some of these challenges include lack “of sufficient skills transfer to government personnel which prolong consultants stay on the project, poor state of supporting infrastructure such as low internet penetration, technological barrier, problem associated with transfer of pay point due to the posting of employees from IPPIS MDA to non-IPPIS MDA, resistance from stakeholders which have prolonged implementation, and government’s lack of will and commitment to accelerate implementation of this project”.
The IPPIS project has also had some scandals coming from it. Police inspectors and rank and file under the Akwa Ibom State Police Command and some personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have called on the authorities to investigate inconsistency in the payment of their salaries.
They queried the operation of the IPPIS, saying they suspect fraud. According to the police officers who pleaded anonymity, they have been suffering underpayment of their regular salary every month since 2018 when payment of police salaries and allowances was moved from Mechanised Salary Section (MSS) to the IPPIS.
One of them said: “We made complaints at the MSS Uyo and the officers there blamed the IPPIS saying the problem is from the IPPIS. And when some of us suffered and travelled to IPPIS office in Abuja they were referred back to the MSS in Uyo and blamed the MSS for the short payments and non-payment in some months.
“Some inspectors on same grade level 10 now receive N50, 000, N60, 000, some N40, 000. And we also have situations where constables are receiving N250, 000 monthly, while sergeants, inspectors are paid N10, 000, N32, 000, and even N9, 000 as monthly salary.
”We demand to know why officers in the same grade level are paid different as salary, and why the amount paid each month is not consistent.
“The situation is that we no longer know what our salary is per month as IPPIS pays whatever amount they deem fit for each month. Some people lose up to N60, 000, each month from what they have been receiving before IPPIS took over our salary payment.
“We are therefore appealing to the president, the Inspector General of Police IGP to as a matter of great importance institute a high powered investigative panel to unravel this endemic corruption. IPPIS activities as it relates to the payment of police Salaries should be investigated from February 2018 till date.”
Another affected police officer said that they have found out recently that their colleagues with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC have been paid refund from the short payment after going to IPPIS office in Abuja to threaten them.
“We gathered that few of our colleagues that have corrected their short payment did so by visiting IPPIS through back door. That is why we are calling on the IGP, Chairman Senate Committee on Police Affairs, to set up a fact-finding team to go across the command and hear the agony of the men before we embark on a protest to expose IPPIS and the fraud they have been committing.
“Even the implementation of the new salary package approved by President Buhari for the Nigeria Police Force December 2018 is another source of concern as the fraud by IPPIS continues. It is unfortunate because this is only a mockery of the President’s fight against corruption.”
When asked to comment on this development, spokesman of the OAGF, Mr. Henshaw Ogubike, who is the Deputy Director (Press), told The Nation that the aggrieved government workers should report to their desk officers to have such issues addressed. He also referred them to publications on IPPIS placed in national dailies.
It was also been alleged by the former Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Mr. Ekpo Nta, that “by outsmarting the Federal Government Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS), some public servants allegedly collected salaries from four different federal ministries”.
Nta spoke at the commencement of a three-day anti-corruption and fraud prevention training organised by the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria (ACAN), a research and training arm of the ICPC in Keffi, Nasarawa State.
He said, as a result, the commission had partnered with Office of the Auditor General, Office of the Accountant General and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to monitor and execute corruption risks assessment on the various electronic-governance platforms.
In March 2016, the Auditor–General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Samuel Ukura, said the introduction of the IPPIS is not the cure for ghost workers syndrome in the country’s public service.
The AGF noted that ghost workers syndrome would continue in the country unless the management and implementation of IPPIS was checked by relevant authorities.
Ukura gave the warning while presenting the 2014 Annual Audit Report to the Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikashuwa, in Abuja.
He lamented that unidentified software developers have unhindered access to the database of IPPIS and usually set up new users and change live data, from time to time.
Ukura told reporters after presenting his audit report that the password controls for access to IPPIS were not adequate because the database can be accessed remotely through the internet. He added that the password to access the IPPIS database does not expire after 90 days.
The situation, he said, makes it possible for retired government officers to use their password even after leaving the office.
Certainly, the IPPIS is not without its challenges. For analysts, the loopholes must be blocked if the gains are not to be lost.

seankafor:
Hotel and club is one biz that can never run down if you know what you re doing..

Balling na must..

How....some hotel cannot pay workers salary....no cottage industries and tourists site couple with insecurity and lack of infrastructure, so tell us how can they make profits

Samnavy:
This man has due for retired
There are people better than this man
In Nigerian army.
Please we meet youth as chief of army staff.
He as use many peoples tenure.

Honestly is the best for now...Boko Haram are mostly Kanuri people and his from Kanuri origin...So ONLY NINJA can kill a NINJA

nameo:
Why cant Northerners debate stuff like this? I will be very interested.

The last World Bank economic report on Nigeria relased yesterday says that 80% of the poor households in Nigeria are in the north. 80%!!!

For a naturally resource rich region, this is shocking.

So question: are the youths of the north debating this??

Really pathetic and appalling

Smoke.....lie lie

KANO STATE:‬

‪Population: 18million‬
‪Number of Industries: 58‬
‪Number of Mosques: 435,389.‬
‪Number of Churches 674.‬
‪Number of Parentless wandering under-aged kids: 3.67million.‬

‪Number of Divorcee Women including under (14): 857,443
‪Number of jobless youth: 3.8m.‬

Courtesy: *‪Kano Statistics Board‬*

A mosque for every 40 people in Kano. And 1 industry for every 300,000 people.

3.7 million Children roaming the streets. 900,000 divorced women with no work.

The state gets allocation from Center and pays wages for over less than 300,000 pple with its multiplier effect of one million pple.

The rest are buying and selling at Kurmi market, Bata etc, less than 50,000 are employed by the industries.

In the "South East" there are over 8 major towns in Anambra state that can beat the 58 industries status of Kano.

Ihiala one of the smallest of the towns in Anambra with over "64 industries" employs over 20,000 people! No child roams the streets.

They go to school or they are apprenticed out to learn a trade. The situation in Kano is replicated virtually in all the Northern States.

Sincerely speaking, the North has to rethink, because there is a looming danger. May God help us!

DOCTOR OLUFUNMILAYO WROTE : 'I have lived in UK a few years now and NEVER has my bank ever charged me one penny for bank transfer.*
*NEVER. NOT ONCE.*

I’m sorry. But that 52 naira 50kobo that Nigerian banks deduct per transaction, what exactly is it for?

Why is no one speaking out against this blatant fraud?

Next is the fraudulent “Card Maintenance Fees” by our Nigerian banks. Please how are you maintaining a card that lives in my wallet?

I have about 3-4 UK Bank Cards here. Both credit cards and debit cards.
I have NEVER paid any such thing as a “Card Maintenance Fee”.
NEVER EVER.

The Nigerian Banking Sector is an unfortunately over-bloated industry that thrives on systemically entrenched policies that terribly defrauds us Nigerians and lives on cheating the average citizen of the hard earned money that is entrusted in their care to help save and invest.

You want to send money to someone from your Nigerian bank account and you first have to plan an extra 52 naira 50kobo.

Money that is electronically sent from one Nigerian bank account to another Nigerian bank account

What exactly is the charges for?
Why is this fraud tolerated?

Someone said the charges goes to NIPOST. I want to believe it is mere trolling as it makes absolutely no sense.

Please, How is Nipost involved in an ELECTRONIC money transfer?
Did I put the money in an envelope and post it? Or what?

We deserve better.
This is systemic cruelty.

When I applied for ATM Cards in UK (both debit and credit), I was NEVER charged a penny.
The card is given free.
And “maintenance”, if there’s any such thing, is done free.

IF we never get the chance to see how things happen in other places, we won’t know we are being cheated.

When I applied for an ATM Card in Nigeria, I was charged 1,000 naira plus VAT 50 naira to have one.
And I’m being charged some extra regularly in the pretence of an imaginary “Card Maintenance Fees”.

This is systemic corruption and a fundamental banking fraud aimed at impoverishing us Nigerians.

Let’s do a little maths, dear friends.

According to NIBSS, as at December 2017, there was almost 65,000 daily Electronic Fund Transfers in 2017.

At 52.50 naira per transaction, that’s over 3 million naira a day.
And about 1 billion naira a year.

Should this fraud continue?'

Bank will send you birthday text and seasons greeting and still charge you for it.

Vengeance

The character that stinks will eventually sink

“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self” — Napoleon Hill


Destiny decays when character declines. The Athenian statesman, Critias, said: “If you discipline yourself within, you will be less vulnerable to injury from outside.”

In life, you need more than a willing spirit to fulfill destiny; you need a conquered flesh. Self-discipline is the ability to do what is right even if you don’t feel like it. Living a principle-centered life is the hallmark of winners. Great people are greatly principled. The core secret of winners is held up in the belief that to go up in life, there are things to give up.


There are two ways of learning in life: By ‘instruction’ or by ‘destruction.’ Winners don’t just show up suddenly; they are all products of a rigorous and disciplined system. Alan Armstrong said: “Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in hours, weeks, months and years, they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.” Lao-Tzu said: “He who gains victory over other men is strong, but he who gains victory over himself is all powerful.”


One of my most fascinating books ever on Discipline, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, is co- authored by a retired Navy SEAL commander in the U.S Navy, Jocko Willink, who talked extensively on how we must always take ownership of our lives and that nobody must ever be the reason why we fail in life.

He succinctly captured his idea about discipline in one quote, when he said: “Discipline equals freedom.” As a youth pastor and leadership coach, I have observed with unfailing accuracy that what ultimately destroy a man at the top are actually indiscipline, habit and sin that followed him there.

Finally, R-Kelly goes to 20 years in jail for pornography, statutory rape and other sexual offenses. He was unarguably the one of the best R&B recording artiste of all times. I have never known such brilliant lyrics and melodic sounds as him. I still remember his greatest hit of all times that shook the world- I Believe I Can Fly. I also remember another smashing hit- If I Could Turn.

He was a solid master in his craft; a virtuoso of the Mic. He did no wrong when he hits the stage; he was lord of that stage, with a charismatic nature that no one could contend. I remember all. Up till this moment, they still resonate in my head; they still serenade my senses. But the turn of event has reduced a star to a piece of bread.

So, here we are, from three-time Grammy Award winner to wearing prison overall. As much as I feel justice should take its course, my heart still bleeds for this legend. My heart bleeds to see what this guy has been reduced to- a defeated and despondent figure. Helpless and hopeless, now he is paying for his choice of life. Now convicted to spend 20 years, this means he should be over 70 after serving his prison term.

Drink otapiapia to reduce your height.......wawa kowai..
Anything from God is a special GIFT

I just like this yoruba word " ADAKE DAJO"loosely translate to Almighty God judgement

Who tell say Mane humble.............na same person Mo Salah no gree pass ball to..... he kom dey hala all over the place ......Na humble person be that..? am just asking

alizma:
Those guys are wounded and crippled so that you may have peaceful sleep.

Don't mind that idiot with shallow thinking

TheGoodJoe:
Clap for yourself.

KPAM ,KPAM,,KPA,KPA,,KPA,,KPAM'''''''''hihihihhihihhhhi e dey pain you

TheGoodJoe:
That was why the penalty was not given. If you read the article, the officials did not talk of the ball hitting Bernardo Silva's arm. The ball ricocheted to Silva's arm and was not a deliberate act.

Replay shows clearly that Trent Arnold Alexander on the other hand saw the ball and chose to use his hand to stop it. Which is clearly a deliberate act for a penalty.

The officials chose to deny it which shows a clear case of their corruption.

since the official did not talk about meaning??........Your sense of reasoning very shallow[color=#990000][/color]

Nothing we no see from this christianity........na business people with either fake miracle or prophesy

May Allah make it easy for us....amin

Narrated An-Nu`man bin Bashir (RA): Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "You see the believers as regards their being merciful among themselves and showing love among themselves and being kind, resembling one body, so that, if any part of the body is not well then the whole body shares the sleeplessness (insomnia) and fever with it."

(Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 78, Hadith 42)

As one ummah – one body – we cannot ignore the suffering of our brothers and sisters across the globe.
May Allah make it easy for us

no mind fashola

fake news

This man well at all

Bunch of idiot and confusionist

MTN...... both in speed and accuracy

They stinks ................Every policeman hand in this Naija is tainted with either Blood or Corruption

BACKGROUND ISSUES.

1. Outcome of the joint meeting between the office of the AGF, Director of IPPIS, committee of Vice Chancellors and the unions (ASUU,SSANU,NAAT and NASU) which was headed by the chairman of Committee of Pro- Chancellors, Professor Munzali Jibrin.

2. Observations, Findings and Stand of the Union.

The meeting was deadlocked because of so many fundamental issues that ASUU observed after the Director of IPPIS made his presentation on how the template will capture the peculiarities of the academics. It is noteworthy that at the meeting, it was only ASUU that stood its ground to make its position and observation known to the committee, other unions who in the first instance were with the union made a U- turn suddenly and sided with the government. The vice chancellors present also could not speak ( with the exception of the Unijos DVC who stands for the VC and luckily he is an expert in ICT) because their chairman was not available as at that time.
What the union observed after the presentation were;

1. The template was designed to phase out staff who are above 60 years of Age. This fundamentally violates the new policy where professors retire at 70.

2. The component of RENT in our consolidated salary is to be removed on those who resides in the university quarters.

3. The template did not make provisions for payment of arrears of promotion, Study leave allowance, responsibility (for a new appointee) and immediate upgrade of salary of visiting lecturers in their visiting places.
4. The template was a mere spread sheet presented (based on the observation raised by the UNIJOS DVC ) which could not capture the technical and peculiarities associated with the flexibility and mobility of academics. Several questions were asked which the director of IPPIS could not provide answers to. This further created suspicion of the whole issue.

5. The template adopts a tax payment system ( Ptax 2) which charges between 48 and 78 thousand naira ( fixed according to rank) this deny us the flexibilities associated with reduced tax burden from one state to another.

The Director of IPPIS later reminded our union that they are acting on the Directive given by the president which mandates them to enroll all FG staff before the end of October 2019. Failure to do so will deny them their salaries. The statement further created confusion because the Union observed

a. We are not employees of the Federal Government rather, we were employed by our respective councils and as such, the statement has nothing to do with university staff.

b. That the statement from Mr president contradicts the laws and acts establishing and regulating universities in nigeria. The union positioned that this infringes the institutional and financial autonomy of public universities, making Governing councils to be irrelevant and less active.

3. That the FG is trying to reverse us back into the mainstream civil service which our past leaders have fought vehemently to pull us out.

OUR PROPOSAL

1. Let the governing councils of Universities take charge of the financial affairs of the universities. Where they are found wanting, the FG can dissolve, investigate and even prosecute them.

2. Give us the chance to develop and present suitable alternative that will take care of our peculiarities while the councils will ensure it's adoption and workability.

FURTHER FINDINGS

1. The IPPIS is run by a financial consulting company. Characterized by inefficient, less experienced and very young personnel who extort ( Evidence mentioned at the NEC) vulnerable enrollees who go to abuja to sort their problems out with the agency. As much as 100 to 200 thousand were charged before service is rendered.

2. That by proper procedures, it takes a minimum of 60 days for an enrollee to be paid after all the biometrics are done. This contradicts even the short notice given by the president to the civil servants.

3. The IPPIS which is an initiative of Mrs Okonjo Iwela has its roots in the world bank political tools used to further subjugate less Developed countries. This further generate crises into the various sectors of our nation.
4. The IPPIS by its structure has 7 modules in which only one is implementable. This is characterized by gross incompetence exhibited by the staff of the IPPIS during the meeting. They seems not to be abreast with the technicalities and cumbersome nature of the template.

The chairman of the meeting professor munzali jibrin having listened to the ASUU's presentation summoned courage and told the participants that the meeting could not be concluded becouse the union has raised a very fundamental and legal issue which requires a deeper analysis and investigation. He then called off the meeting with a promise to get back to the union.

It is obvious that the AGF and the IPPIS office were not happy with the outcome and as such, devised a more sinister plan to enroll us through the back door. What they did was;

a. To demand for the personnel payroll from all the federal universities where almost all the universities complied. Some even used the opportunity to update their payroll by taking additional staff and converting some casual staff to main staff so that they will get enough manpower. This is because the template does not provide for additional staffing.

b. Send the IPPIS forms to selected universities and encouraged vice chancellors to do every thing possible to ensure compliance.

The union further observed;

1. Some universities collected the form and some members filled and returned. It further observed that majority of those who complied in filling the IPPIS forms in those universities where forms were given are those from college of Medicine.
2. Other universities collected the form and refused to distribute.

3. The rest did not receive the forms at all.

OUR OPTIONS

The union was very worried and saddened at the attitude of some of our members who became jittery and are ready to compromise the future of our universities by a mere threat of stoppage of Salary. This calls for a more reorientation of our members on the principles and ideology of the union. The emergence of a supposed break away faction of the union and the amplification of the sex for grade and all other antics are grand plan to quash the union and give a bad public image about all academicians. The following are the options of the union;

1. Write a strong letter to the president through the minister of Education and demand audience with him.

2. Write a letter to the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives and also have audience with them to brief them correctly on the situation.

3. Consider a court action seeking an injunction restraining the FG from violating the law by imposing IPPIS on our members.

4. Strong press releases, media briefings and campaigns against the planned imposition of the system on our members.

5. National and Zonal visitations to all our branches, sensitising and mobilising our members for an action in case our salaries are stopped.

My dear comrades, this is the brief I was able to gather at the NEC meeting. You may wish to digest it and make further input when we call for a Congress meeting pls. Thank you

That is how we roll here........if e pain you take am go oyinbo land pig na pig