Prof. Abayomi Fasina, the vice chancellor of Federal University, Oye Ekiti, has urged the government to raise the salary of academics in the nation, stating that a professor, for instance, need to make at least N1 million a month.
The FUOYE VC praised the Federal Government’s decision to exempt public universities from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System during his speech at Oye Ekiti on Sunday. He made this announcement while accepting a commendation award from the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ekiti State Council.
According to Fasina, the tertiary institutions’ operations would be managed more effectively and with more autonomy if varsities were removed from the IPPIS.
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The VC added, “The advantage is that we are now independent to decide on proper management of the system,” when discussing the advantages of leaving IPPIS. We can always use our IGR to augment the benefits we receive from the government.
Another benefit is that we want our pay to rise from the government, and this development will allow us to use our IGR to subsidize that raise. In Nigerian universities, our pay as lecturers is currently quite low. A professor shouldn’t make less than a million naira, for instance.
This breakthrough would spare us the headache of having to travel to Abuja in order to obtain approval for numerous tasks that we can simply complete on our own. stuff like hiring and other things. Now that we have autonomy, we are able to effectively run our system by ourselves.
“We get a lot of headaches from IPPIS’s excessive bureaucracy. Because of this red tape, a few of our employees haven’t received their salaries in several months. Due to IPPIS bottlenecks, a former VC who took a sabbatical had his salary withheld from him upon his return for a number of months.
He claimed that President Bola Tinubu “has demonstrated his genuine intention and commitment to turning around the fortunes of the education sector” by the single act of removing institutions from IPPIS. A new university system would be created by the exception.