Ifeanyi Onuba and Olaleye AlukoAll university lecturers were paid their December salaries because the Federal Government had not completed the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System in the institutions, The PUNCH learnt on Thursday. ), had, during the 2020 budget presentation at the National Assembly on October 8, directed all government workers to register for the IPPIS. It said those who failed to register would not be paid their December salaries. The Deputy Director of Press in the Office of the AGF, Mr Henshaw Ogubike, could not be reached to explain why the lecturers, who did not register, were paid their December salaries. He noted that there was no circular from the Federal Government to stop the salaries of lecturers.

Source: Punch December 27, 2019 00:22 UTC