The Federal Executive Council FEC, has approved the removal of University staff from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
Mamman Tahir, the minister of education, disclosed this while briefing State House journalists after the FEC meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa Abuja.
ASUU had embarked on strike February 2022, when it called for the abolition of IPPIS to embrace its own creation, the University Transparency Account System (UTAS), which it argued will better take care of the weaknesses inherent in IPPIS.
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ASUU had told the government to take into consideration the peculiarities of universities.
Tahir, said the President also directed the Vice Chancellors to be removed from taking permissions from the office of the Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF) before they can engage staff for their institutions.
According to the president, “they do not have to go to the Head of Service for approvals to engage the service of new workers, anymore.”
“They will now be paying their own staff directly,” he said.
Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, said the federal government took action to strike a technical support services deal with Construction company, CCECC, for the the maintenance of facilities at the nation’s airports for five years at N4.15b.
The second memo was for navigational communication equipment that had to do with air safety at N2.27b for the PortHacourt international airport.
Mohammed Idris, the Information Minister, also disclosed that the President approved the stoppage of wavers on imported goods, following complaints by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) that it lost over N1trillion to such wavers
The President had earlier sworn in the Chairman and Members of the Federal Civil Service Commission, including, Tunji Olaopa (Chairman), Daudu Jalo (Member), Ededet Eyoma (Member), Charmberlain Nwele (Member), Rufus Godwins (Member) and Adamu Hussien (Member).
Others include, Aminu Nabegu (Member) Hindatu Abdullahi (Member), Shehu Aliyu (Member), Odekunle Aduke (Member), Adebisi Sosan (Member) and Festus Oyebade (Member).
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