‘IPPIS Not Suitable For Universities’ Workers’—JAMB Registrar 

The current Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has made it known that the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS), as a payment plan for university workers, is unsuitable for the Nigerian tertiary institution system.

This was said  during a virtual lecture, titled: Synchronising Cacophony: Interrogating Some Issues of Concepts and Perception in the Nigerian Higher Education Topology, in honour of a former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Peter Okebukola, on his 71st birthday.

Oloyede, who was the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN),  added specifically that he was not a fan of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), but the union is in any way right as long as they clamour for their rights. 

He said: “I am not a fan of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), but they have a point here. IPPIS is unsuitable for the university system.

“Let me cite an instance. When I was the VC at the University of Ilorin, I went to Australia on an official assignment and there I met a Nigerian with PhD in Botany, where we lacked the manpower.

“I spoke with the man and convinced him of the need to work with us, and he agreed. Immediately, I put a call to the Dean of the Faculty of Science and told him about the development. That was how we secured the services of the man. He is now a professor in one of the nation’s universities.”