IPPIS is unsuitable- JAMB registrar
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has said the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) used by the Federal Government as a payment platform for University employees is unsuitable for the Nigerian University system.
Prof. Is-haq Oloyede categorically said that even though he is not a fan of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Union had every right to fight for their payment. Prof Oloyode made this statment during a virtual lecture titled ‘Synchronising cacophony: Interrogating some issues of concepts and perception in the Nigerian higher education topology,’ held in honour of the former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Peter Okebukola, to mark his 71st birthday.
He cited an instance, about when he was VC at the University of Ilorin, he visited Australia on an official assignment and there he met a Nigerian with PhD in an area of Botany where we lack manpower here in Nigeria. In his words:
“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 and that was how we secured the services of the man. He is now a professor in one of the nation’s Universities.”
Furthermore, Prof. Oloyede also called for restraint in the setting up of Universities by government agencies, noting that there were institutions already created which could cater to the training of other agencies and government should instead focus on the adequate funding of the already existing Universities in the country who lack poor infrastructure.
“He cautioned people about Universities set up by government agencies and the military.
According to him, “We already have the Nigerian Defence Academy which trains officers for all the arms of the military. We also have the Police Academy that trains police officers, and they can also help in training para-military men too. If care is not taken, we will soon have the ‘University of Road Safety’ or the ‘University of Civil Defence’. Adequate funding of Universities should be our main focus now” he added.
