{"id":5774,"date":"2020-03-13T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T11:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2020-03-13T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T11:49:13","slug":"ippis-will-not-undermine-university-autonomy-buhari-assures-asuu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5774","title":{"rendered":"IPPIS will not undermine university autonomy, Buhari assures ASUU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Buhari-President1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/serap-to-buhari-ganduje-release-sanusi-from-detention-now\/\">Muhammadu Buhari<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday appealed to striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to accept the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university teachers embarked on a two weeks warning strike on Monday to protest the Federal Government\u2019s non-payment of some of their colleagues\u2019 salaries for allegedly refusing to enroll in the IPPIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buhari, who spoke at the 14th convocation ceremony of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, described the union protest against the payment system as \u201cneedless.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Represented by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, the President said IPPIS was not meant to diminish the university autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cI should not end this address without touching on IPPIS, which has been a bone of contention, and a needless one at that, between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI assure you all that the IPPIS is not intended to trample upon university autonomy nor is it designed to subsume the university into the civil service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe primary intention of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/stalemate-as-asuu-insists-it-wont-accept-ippis-in-meeting-with-buhari\/\">IPPIS<\/a>&nbsp;is to enhance greater efficiency, transparency and better management of university finances. And this should be an important moral pillar of all universities where students are graduated based on character and learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll universities must be committed to these cherished values if they are to serve as a moral compass to the larger society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President&nbsp;Muhammadu Buhari&nbsp;on Thursday appealed to striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to accept the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System. The university teachers embarked on a two weeks warning strike on Monday to protest the Federal Government\u2019s non-payment of some of their colleagues\u2019 salaries for allegedly refusing to enroll in the IPPIS. 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