The North-West Zonal Coordinator of COEASU, Malam Muawiyya Usman, disclosed this in Gusau on Friday, at the inauguration of the newly-elected executives of the union at the Federal College of Education, Gusau.
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Prof. Theophilus Lagi, the ASUU Coordinator, Abuja chapter, made the appeal at a news conference in Gwagwalada on Thursday.
Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan, Acting Head of Civil Service of the Federation, made the disclosure on Monday in Abuja at a capacity building workshop, organised by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria.
He said it had also deterred the rampant theft and mismanagement of public funds.
This contained in a letter by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association to the Minister of Labour and Employment.
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly committee investigating nonpayment of June 2019 salaries, has advised Local Governments in the state to enroll their staff in the Integrated payroll and Personnel Information System.
Nureni Yekini, ASUP Chairman in the college, made the decision of his members known at a news conference in the college, following the directive of the national body.
The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has enjoined the National Executive Councils the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and National Association of Academic Technologists to embrace coming on board the IPPIS as it is for the good of the Nation.
The Federal Government has saved over N288 billion through the implementation of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System from April 2007 till date.
Direct savings from yearly appropriations of Ministries, Departments and Agencies on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System has grown to over N100 billion.
Olufehinti Olusegun, the Director, Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, has said the Federal Government saved over N206 billion in salaries of federal civil servants during the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years.
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies to be on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System platform by March 2019.
The Federal Government has concluded arrangements to begin the enrolment of all military personnel on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), scheme from July 30.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that aggrieved policemen had in May staged a protest at the OAGF, to demand explanation on discrepancies in their salaries after moving from GIFMIS to IPPIS platform.
This brings the aggregate savings by the Government on personnel cost since 2007 to date to N288 billion.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the Federal Government had set up the Continuous Audit Team to look into the finances of Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies
Speaking against the backdrop of a deadline handed down by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to some agencies in the oil and gas industry, the workers said that if the government insists on imposing the IPPIS and its several impediments and hardship on the personnel records and payroll system in the oil and gas industry, they will not hesitate to reciprocate with an unfathomable industrial crisis
Otunla disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja when he received a delegation from the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Aji
Threatening to invite the attention of anti-graft agencies into the matter, the NUJ warned that all the deductions, which have been allegedly diverted by IPPIS, must be refunded immediately, else it would be compelled to take legal actions