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Tinubu Govt Returns 4,081 Workers to IPPIS, Approves Salaries Payment

by Victor Ndubuisi
written by Victor Ndubuisi 2 minutes read

Out of the 17,000 governmental servants that were initially delisted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), 4,081 have been returned by the federal government.

Following complaints of specific federal servants’ paychecks being withheld across Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAS), Anaedoonline.ng learned that the civil servants have now been re-enrolled into the Federal Government’s payroll.

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCN) and the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation intervened, according to the Punch, and 17,000 civil servants who had been recently delisted from the IPPIS were verified. This led to the workers’ return.

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It was reported that 17,000 government workers had been delisted from the IPPIS as a result of their noncompliance with verification procedures that lasted more than five years.

The State House, the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the Public Service Commission, the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation, and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation were among the civil servants cleared, according to the list that was obtained.

Additional representatives came from the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Ministry of Youths, Ministry of Women Affairs, Ministry of Trade and Investment, Ministry of Police Affairs, and Ministry of Trade and Investment, Ministry of Mines and Steel Development.

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Others were the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Aviation, Ministry of Education, Federal Civil Service Commission and Budget Office of the Federation.

 

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Federal Workers Without Updated IPPIS Records Risk Salary Loss

by Ikem Emmanuel
written by Ikem Emmanuel 2 minutes read

In a bid to streamline government payroll and curb fraud, the Nigerian government has initiated a process to update the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) for federal workers. However, as of October 3, a significant number of employees, approximately 89,100, had not updated their records as required by the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF). With the October deadline approaching, these workers face the risk of not receiving their salaries from the end of the month.

The IPPIS initiative, launched in April 2017, aimed to combat ghost workers and reduce personnel cost inefficiencies by maintaining an accurate database of public servants. Over time, various phases of the program were implemented to ensure that all workers complied with the record-keeping requirements.

OHCSF’s Director of Communications, M. A. Ahmed, explained the process: “An initial period of three months was given for compliance, which was extended to one year in May 2018. This was the first phase. Subsequent phases included physical verification, conducted by trained staff from the OHCSF across the country.”

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Despite these efforts, many employees failed to verify their records, and in response, the OHCSF suspended their salaries starting from September 2023. Some of these employees subsequently appealed for a final opportunity to comply. The OHCSF reopened the portal for record updates from October 3 to 13, 2023. However, employees who failed to complete this step are now required to visit Abuja for physical verification.

Ahmed addressed some workers’ claims of difficulties during the verification process, attributing any inconveniences to non-compliance with official directives. He emphasized that the ongoing exercise would finalize the records of all civil servants, and those whose records couldn’t be verified would be delisted from the government’s payroll. This move is part of the government’s ongoing efforts to streamline its payroll and eliminate inefficiencies in the system.

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Senate Probes IPPIS Over Fraud

by Mercy Ulasi
written by Mercy Ulasi 2 minutes read

Inquiry into charges of bribery and corruption against employees of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System at various universities across the federation was opened by the Senate on Wednesday.

Additionally, the Senate decided to host a discussion with the Head of Service, the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Chairman of the Committee on Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, and other pertinent parties.

This was in response to a motion made during Wednesday’s session by Senator Ifeanyi Ubah (Young Progressives Party, Anambra South).

IPPIS was introduced in 2007 to administer the monthly payroll of the federal government’s workers in a manner to guarantee confidence in staff emoluments.

There had been a disagreement between the Federal Government and ASUU on the preferred payment for Nigerian university staff.

FG insisted on IPPIS as the best payroll for the university system but ASUU rejected and recommended the University Transparency and Accountability Solution as a better alternative.
Since the introduction of the IPPIS , the university body has embarked on several strike actions to show their displeasure on the payroll method introduced by the Nigerian government.

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Ubah, while moving the motion, noted that “While the Federal Government and ASUU were unable to reach an agreement regarding which of the two payment platforms to be adopted for the management of university staff payroll, recent allegations of bribery, corruption and delayed capturing and payment of some university staff recruited as far back as in 2020 through the IPPIS has called for urgent investigation of those irregularities because of untold hardship caused to affected university staff and their families.”

“The allegations of bribery, corruption, delayed capturing and payment of salaries of newly-recruited staff of Federal Government-owned universities have cast serious doubt in the credibility and suitability of IPPIS as a platform for managing the payroll of university staff as institutions clothed with autonomy for the purposes of teaching, learning and research,” he said.

The Senate, after a debate, resolved to investigate the allegations of bribery and corruption against IPPIS officials at various universities across the federation.
The Red Chamber said the investigation be carried out by its Committee on Tertiary Institutions when constituted.

Senators Adams Oshiomole (All Progressives Congress, Edo North), Abdul Ningi (Bauchi Central), Garba Maidoki (PDP, Kebbi South) and Ibrahim Dankwambo (Peoples Democratic Party, Gombe North) supported the motion when it was thrown for debate.

 

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IPPIS: How FG Fired Over 500 “Illegal” Workers From Labour Ministry

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Over 500 “illegal employees” of the Ministry of Labor and Employment have been fired by the federal government.

Weeks before the 2019 elections, the allegedly affected individuals were working for the ministry without receiving a waiver from the federation’s office of the head of the civil service.

The employees were fired, according to an internal memo signed by the ministry’s director of human resource management, Hussain Abdallah Rahman, and acquired by TheCable, because a committee refused to accept them onto the platform for the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.

The IPPIS being a platform under the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation is being used for payment of salaries directly to government employees’ bank accounts with appropriate deductions and remittances of third-party payments.
The IPPIS has also been a bone of contention between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government, with the former coming up another payment system known as the University Transparency and Accountability Solution.

In the circular, AbdallahRahman noted that the non-compliance with the directive of the HoS by the Ministry of Labour during the employment process was the main cause of the sacking of the workers.

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The circular further directed the affected workers to return all government properties in their care to their respective unit heads.
“With reference to the letter from the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation Ref. No. NICSF/PS/CMO/IPPIS/S.2/VOLT dated September 5, 2022, on the above subject, I am directed to inform the under-listed persons that the Committee on Enrolment of New Employees into the IPPIS platform did not process their enrolment.

“Furthermore, the recruitment exercise was carried out without waiver from its office.

“All affected persons are hereby requested to immediately return any government property or properties in their possession to the heads of department/unit,” the circular, dated December 29, 2022, read.

It was also gathered that according to a top source in the ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the affected staff were those who paid for employment slots, adding that the sacked workers, while some were given the IPPIS numbers and proper identification, others were not.

The spokesperson for the ministry, Olajide Osundun, said the ministry resolved to release the affected employees after their employment couldn’t be legalised.

“The ministry had no option now, but to ask the 512 to leave because they were not captured for salary. They haven’t been paid salary since the time they were given the employment letters. The summary of it was the appointment was illegal.

“There is nothing to do to correct illegality. The present administration in the ministry has no other thing to do after making several failed overtures than for them to leave,” he told TheCable.

 

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Strike: Again, Gbajabiamila, AGF, ASUU, Meet On IPPIS, UTAS

by Victor Ndubuisi
written by Victor Ndubuisi 2 minutes read

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, or ASUU, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, have spoken once more about the ongoing payment dispute between the union and the Federal Government.

On Monday, Gbajabiamila revealed this while posting pictures from the meeting on his Facebook page.

Recall that the Speaker of the House of Representatives intervened between ASUU and the Federal Government, leading to the suspension of its eight-month strike.

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In its demands, the union demanded that the government accept its own University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, in place of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

The Speaker stated that the meeting’s goal was to come to a consensus on how to implement the unique needs of lecturers into the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, noting that this was a key component of the agreement that resulted in the suspension of the eight-month strike by ASUU.

“The main issue for discussion today, which was one of the major areas of conflict, was the issue of the payment platform. Whether or not, or how to deal with the issue of UTAS as opposed to IPPIS.

“If you recollect on that issue, we did agree that we will marry both, whilst IPPIS will remain the platform, that the government will bring in the aspects and the areas under UTAS that are specific to the universities and assimilate those areas into IPPIS, I believe that was what was agreed by both sides when we had our last two meetings,” he said.

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The Accountant-General of the Federation was also part of the meeting, while the National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, led the ASUU delegation.

 

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TSA/IPPIS, FG Saves N10.2 Trillion And Discovers 70,000 Fake Workers

by Echezona obinna
written by Echezona obinna 3 minutes read

According to Dr. Dasuki Arabi, Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, the federal government-supported Integration Personnel and Payroll Information System has so far revealed and removed 70,000 ghost personnel from the civil service system.

According to him, IPPIS helped the government save at least N220 billion. In a same vein, he said that since the Buhari administration completely established the Treasury Single Account, about N10 trillion had also been through it.

This was said by Arabi on Thursday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja at the 43rd meeting of the ministerial briefing, which was hosted by the Presidential Communication Team.

The DG, who gave updates on the Bureau’s performance in implementing government reforms and programmes, said IPPIS had led to the reduction of the Federal Civil Service personnel to 720,000.
Arabi said, “With the introduction of IPPIS, about 70,000 ghost workers have been eliminated from the payroll. We have a one-shot opportunity to look at IPPIS and say, as of today, we have 720,000 public servants working for Nigeria.

“We’ve been able to reduce more than N220bn wastage through wrong management of IPPIS on payroll by ministries, departments and agencies of government. We have reduced the budget deficits and changed the budget composition.

“We have succeeded in getting the Treasury Single Account deployed in all ministries, departments and agencies of government. Challenges have come in that implementation at the initial stage, but we are overcoming that and the government is able to save over N10tn over the years because whatever you’re generating now goes into a Treasury Single Account that is managed by somebody else, not you.

“And the government, especially at the top, is always able to see what has come into our Treasury Single Account today and what has gone out of that. So planning has been simplified. Budgeting has been simplified.”

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The DG said the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System had digitised government business and “reduced man-to-man contact and processing payments in ministries, departments and agencies.”

He said, “Transparency has been improved. A lot of things are done even outside the office. But the most important thing is the ability given to central agencies, the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, and the Ministry of Finance to see what is happening in all government MDAs because GIFMIS is not controlled by the agencies.

“It is controlled by the central agencies, but every activity you are doing under GIFMIS somebody is watching you and is monitoring that activity. This is a great achievement for us and for all of you and for all Nigerians.”

Arabi also said the FG would soon announce its implementation milestone on the Oransanye report’s White Paper.

“On Oronsaye white paper, the government has been working around that. You are aware that it was implemented in good time. And over the years, there have been changes.

“More agencies and commissions were created which makes it necessary for the government to look back and say okay, between Oronsaye White Paper and today, how many more agencies have been created? So, that was why those committees were created.

 

 

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N80bn Fraud: See What ASUU Said Over Arrest of AGF, Idris Ahmed

by Victor Ndubuisi
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The arrest of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has bolstered the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ (ASUU) belief that IPPIS is a scam.

This was remarked in response to Idris’ detention for suspected money laundering and diversion of N80 billion.

In an interview with Newsmen, ASUU President Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke emphasized that the matter should not be hidden, claiming that IPPIS is a deception utilized by the Accountant-General to steal monies rather than prevent corruption.

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He said: “We have said it over and over again that IPPIS is a fraud. We’ve also said that the Accountant-General office is a fraud, and they are using IPPIS to relocate all the fraud activities to one centre, which is the Accountant-General Office and we have been vindicated. That’s our position.”

Osodeke demanded that the EFCC should take the Accountant-General to court, adding that “corrupt persons deserve punishment in line with Buhari’s administration’s vision.

“This IPPIS, I can tell you as we speak, that many of our members have not been paid for 13 months, 8 months, 9 months, but they’re telling the government that they are using it to control corruption.”

 

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LATEST: IPPIS Crisis With FG Heightens As ASUU Threatens To Embark On Indefinite Strike

by Victor Ndubuisi
written by Victor Ndubuisi 3 minutes read

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday threatened to embark on strike following the delay in the decision of the Federal Government to resolve the lingering crisis in universities.

ASUU described the defence of IPPIS as shameful, claiming that there had been fraud in its implementation as indicated in the 2021 report submitted to the National Assembly by the Auditor General of the Federation.

The union lamented over the meetings with the federal government which has failed to yield any result.

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ASUU in a statement signed by the Chairman of the union, University of Jos branch, Lazarus Maigoro, read, “In the last one year, our Union has been engaged with the federal government and its officials over demands which, if met, would lift the standard of our battered tertiary institutions, especially the universities. The undisputed crisis in our educational sector has met, as with other consequences, nothing but the same response. Our union states very clearly that we appreciate the interest demonstrated by the Nigerian Inter-religion Council to resolve the current impasse.

“However, it is not rational to continue to return to the same physician for the cure of an ailment iatrogenically introduced by him or one in which he has failed to cure or bring relief to his patient.

“From historical experience, we can conclude that NIRECs efforts with agents of government will be more prone to bringing further pain and anguish to the system. This will surely be the case if NIREC’s intervention ends with a palliative solution. This will lead to another phase of the same crisis. For the avoidance of doubt, our Union ASUU has had several meetings with the Minister of Labour, Officials of the Federal Ministry of Education, the NUC, and NITDA and, very recently with the Chief of Staff to the President.

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“All these meetings have not calmed our members as the following issues remain unresolved. The recent comments by the spokesman to the President, Mr Femi Adesina that government will keep to the promises, rings very hollow to us. The government’s pattern of response to the issues is that of a serial promise-breaker. Like an unfaithful spouse, they are unable to match their words with action which is affecting the education sector negatively.

“We are tired of their deceit and IT IS TIME FOR US TO ACT. We want to inform Nigerians, that we are tired of fruitless meetings with the Minister of Labour, NUC Executive Secretary, Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, NITDA, and the Chief of Staff to the President. If they ever want us to listen to them, they should first of all act on the promises they have already made.

“In the meantime, we are resolved to proceed on an indefinite and comprehensive strike until fidelity returns to our relationship with the government and our demands are met. We are tired of the back and forth.”

 

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Doctors Strike: Details Of FG’s Meeting With NARD Emerge

by Victor Ndubuisi
written by Victor Ndubuisi 4 minutes read

The Federal Government and striking members of the National Association of Resident Doctors met again on Saturday after an 11-hour meeting yesterday.

The meeting, amongst other matters, tackled the issue of locum doctors, migration to IPPIS, and bench fees.

The issue of hazard allowance was agreed should be out of the negotiation table since the stalemate created by the disagreement between the NMA and JOHESU was responsible for the delay, as the Federal Government already mapped out N37.5B for it.

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Though the adjourned marathon meeting slated for 10am on Saturday didn’t commence until about 4.30pm, it was brief.

However, details emerging from the meeting signal an end in sight to the industrial action that has brought the nation’s health system to its knees as the Federal Government is set to pen a new agreement with the striking doctors.

Recall that the doctors had embarked on a strike on August 2 over unpaid benefits, among other issues. But the government threatened to invoke the ‘no work, no pay’ policy to compel the doctors to suspend the strike, but that measure did not work.

In his opening remarks during the meeting, Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, reiterated that all issues in contention have been deliberated and agreed upon.

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He said that President Muhammadu Buhari directed him to by-pass every technicality and resume conciliation with the doctors.

“The National Industrial Court in its wisdom also advised that NARD should keep talking with its employers. So we are tapping into this window of an alternative dispute resolution to ameliorate this situation that is already bad,” Ngige said.

The Minister also said that a certain N4.802 billion provided in the 2021 supplementary budget has been received from the Central Bank and it is being processed by the Budget Office in view to resolving the industrial dispute.

He praised the President of the Nigeria Medical Association, Prof. Innocent Ujah for intervening in the impasse and assuming his role as the leader of all doctors in Nigeria.

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He said, “When you talk to the children and they don’t listen well, you talk to their parents. The standing agreement that every negotiation by affiliate associations must be led by the NMA was not observed in the recent past.

“I, therefore, commend Ujah for assuming his role as the father of all doctors. I want you to play this role effectively and efficiently.”

Apart from Ngige, others in attendance included the Minister of State for Health, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, the Permanent Secretaries of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Dr. Peter Tarfa; and Health, Mamman Mamuda.

Others are the Permanent Secretary, Service Welfare, Office of the Head of Service, Ngozi Onwudiwe; the Director-General of the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze; the Chairman of National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta; and the representative of the Minister of State, Finance, Budget and Planning.

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The representatives of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation as well as the national leadership of the NMA, NARD, MDCAN were also in attendance.

On his part, Mamora urged the doctors to end their strike in the interest of the nation as the government tackles their demands.

But the NMA President, Innocent Ujah, blamed some government functionaries for neglecting their roles, saying that the three-week-old strike was avoidable.

“As doctors, we are trained to prevent disease, cure illnesses and promote health but not trained to go on strike but circumstances force doctors to do otherwise,” he noted.

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However, it seems the striking resident doctors are not satisfied with the Memorandum of Action printed by the government and brought to the meeting for their signatures before journalists were asked to exit the meeting for a closed-door parley.

 

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ASUU Strike: Why We Are Against IPPIS – SSANU Reveals

by Victor Ndubuisi
written by Victor Ndubuisi 3 minutes read

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has lamented that the introduction of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) has adversely affected autonomy for universities and also impoverished it, members, in the university community.

National President of SSANU, Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim made this assertion in Benin City on Friday, at the 2nd Regular Zonal Executive Council meeting of SSANU, South-South noted that what the Nigerian government told his members as regards the IPPIS is quite different from what is being experienced presently.

He said the implementation of IPPIS has denied SSANU members of several allowances they were entitled to, adding that they can no longer access the money they made through their multi-purpose co-operative including the inability of Vice-Chancellors to employ staff.

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He said: “No Vice-Chancellor can employ a single staff today in our universities. If VC can no longer employ a single staff, then where is the university autonomy?

“For us as a union, our highest predicament presently is the continuous denials of our member’s privileges and rights by the Federal Government of Nigeria. We have signed an agreement with the Federal Government since 2009, going to 11 years now, less than 10 per cent of that agreement has been implemented.

“Our allowances are being taken for granted. The contribution we make through our multi-purpose cooperative, the money is not accessible. This gives us doubt about the anti-corruption fight professed by this government. And the worst, this money is not remitted.

“Our members are seriously suffering financially and economically because of the mutilation we are witnessing in our salaries. When we key into IPPIS, it was with a clear vision. Our leaders then told us that this is an opportunity where university staff will have easy access to their salaries, but what we are seeing today is contrary,” lamented.

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Speaking on insecurity bedeviling the nation, Comrade Ibrahim said the university community is no longer safe for its members, just as he lamented that many university staff have fallen victim of kidnapping or armed robbery.

He recommended that the government should empower university security staff with licensed arms and ammunition and also retrain them so that they can stand the insecurity challenges in the university community.

Speaking at the event, Vice-Chancellor, University of Benin, the host of the South-South meeting, Professor Lillian Salami, urged SSANU members and other staff of the university to cooperate with the management by offering selfless and sacrificial service and not to see the university system as a national cake.

 

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