The Federal Government of Nigeria has stopped the salaries of any federal university employee who have not enrolled on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System.
The order of the Federal Government would take effect from November 2020.
The FG gave the directive in its latest memo from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) with reference number OAGF/IPPIS/446/1/159. The memo is dated October 8 and signed by the Director of IPPIS, Nsikak Ben, for the AGF.
The memo was issued to all university vice chancellors through the committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigeria Federal Universities.
It read in part, “I am directed to inform you that any staff of your institution who has not enrolled on the IPPIS, either as a result of study leave (with pay), maternity leave or on medical ground, will no longer appear on the IPPIS payroll.
“This is with effect from November 2020, except such staff presents himself/herself for the biometric data capture at the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Abuja.”
The government added that such worker would have to appear with an introductory letter/IPPIS enrolment forms and must be endorsed by the principal authorities of the institution.
It further stated that all supporting documents should include evidence of six months’ salary from the bank statement.
The memo to the vice chancellors also said, “In view of the above, kindly inform your staff in this category to urgently avail themselves for the biometric data capture at the OAGF.”
It then noted that exemption might only be given where institutions provided evidence of study leave.
Adding that in such an instance, the institution must state the duration of the study leave to justify why such persons should be retained on the payroll.
The spokesperson for the OAGF, Henshaw Ogubike, when contacted concerning the memo, confirmed the directive.
He said, “The letter is from our office.”
