The Integrated Personnel Payroll Integrated System says the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Federal Inland Revenue Service and a few other agencies are not on their platform because they are revenue-generating entities. IPPIS further stated that these agencies do not draw their funding from the consolidated revenue account but may be enrolled in the platform later.

The Director of IPPIS, Olufehinti Olusegun, said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday. Olusegun said this while reacting to complaints by the Academic Staff Union of Universities that the Federal Government was partial in its implementation of the IPPIS initiative by exempting the CBN, NNPC and other government agencies.

ASUU, which has rejected the initiative outright, had argued that if staff members of CBN, NNPC and others could be exempted from IPPIS, then it should not be made compulsory for university staff.

Responding to a question, Olusegun said, “The President’s directive was that all Ministries, Departments, Agencies or institutions drawing their salaries from the consolidated revenue fund, which is a Federal Government account, are to key into IPPIS.

“The government knows that all agencies cannot be brought on board at the same time. But for those who draw their salaries and personnel costs from the consolidate revenue account of the Federal Government, they must come on board.

“For the CBN, FIRS and NNPC, they are revenue agencies and they live on the cost of collection. They are revenue-generating agencies and they don’t draw from the consolidated revenue fund. So, it is left to the government on what to do next but it is a journey that just started.”

He said so far, over 937,000 federal employees including the military are on IPPIS. The director said the initiative had been able to save billions of naira belonging to the government which had hitherto been entering private pockets.

However, the President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, argue that universities cannot be categorised as a ministry, department or agency. Ogunyemi said in the IPPIS blueprint, universities were not supposed to be captured in the scheme. The ASUU President said IPPIS, if implemented, would affect the ability of universities to attract visiting professors.

He said, “Just 3 weeks ago we were at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa where scholars in the Diaspora came together to think of how best they could help revitalise higher education in Africa and a lot of case studies were presented. The case of our late friend, Prof. Pius Adesanmi, who was until his death, the Director of African Studies in Carlton, Canada, came up for mention. This professor was a visiting professor at more than three universities in Africa.

“In fact, the Director of African Studies in Legon, Ghana, recalled that Adesanmi was on their payroll as a visiting scholar and he would be visiting for at least three months and he would go back and he did that for more than five years. He did the same for two other universities in South Africa.

“In Nigeria, going by IPPIS arrangement, there would have no room for that. Even if a scholar in the Diaspora is coming to Nigeria for one-year sabbatical bringing a lot of experience, IPPIS arrangement would not accommodate such.”

Responding to allegations by the National Universities Commission that over 100 fake professors were recently exposed, the Vice-Chancellor, Kano State University of Technology, Prof. Shehu Musa, said it was very possible that the fake professors worked for fake universities.

He noted that the NUC had in recent time alerted the public to the existence of many fake universities and so it was not out of place to also have fake professors as well.

SOURCE (abridged): https://punchng.com/why-cbn-nnpc-are-not-on-our-platform-ippis/

The greatest scam in civil/ public service is this ippis

While the government is busy wasting time on irrelevant and minor issues, their regime is going and at the end of another 4years, they would leave only debts, propaganda and suffering as their only achievements. Devilish lying idiots.

When did CBN start generating revenue?

See excuse

You can't even try it with NNPC. Their union is not weak like ASUU.

If FG tries it with NNPC, they will ground the economy.

Ok

The Integrated Personnel Payroll Integrated System says the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Federal Inland Revenue Service and a few other agencies are not on their platform because they are revenue-generating entities. IPPIS further stated that these agencies do not draw their funding from the consolidated revenue account but may be enrolled in the platform later.

There must always be an excuse.

Do universities not generate funds?
All the school fees that students pay are what?

Mgbadike80:
While the government is busy wasting time on irrelevant and minor issues, their regime is going and at the end of another 4years, they would leave only debts, propaganda and suffering as their only achievements. Devilish lying idiots.

Confam talk

ok

Yee

Excuses from both sides.
This regime should just end abeg...

CBN, FIRS, NNPC and others are Corporate Entity established by law whose activities, including the revenue/income and expenditures, were regulated by act of National Assembly. Moreover, they generate revenue, net their expenses as specified by relevant law, and remmit excesses to the FG. Some of them have their remittance shared by all the three tiers of government.

Under what basis should such organisations be with compared or served as a basis on which ASUU (an association of employee) exclusion be made?

Very much

True but invalid.

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In less than 30 days, 2019 will be over.

Remaining 3 years of the 2 terms.

IPPIS have a point.

We want the later to be now..

jacquincy:
The greatest scam in civil/ public service is this ippis

How please? I still don't understand the reservation on this issue apart from that of ASUU.. Kindly explain sir

IPPIS a new innovation by Sai Baba that will bring development and ensure a good quality of life for the citizens and Personnel serving the country.

God bless Buhari

PatrickOkunima:
When did CBN start generating revenue?

Are you for real??

So CBN offers free services to Banks abi?? What of the fines, licences, regulatory fees etc

ippis this, ippis that.....when the ippis itself is aiding corruption

Senators and reps too should enroll now, abi how much revenue are they generating. Idiot people

Go and register

will u keep kwayet

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses.

But I believe we will get there.

It is simply the journey of a thousand miles...