ASUU: Nigeria Spends About N5bn Yearly In Servicing IPPIS

On Friday, the Calabar Zone of the Academic Union of Universities pointed out that Nigeria spends about N5 billion annually to service the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

The Calabar Zonal Coordinator of ASUU,  Senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Uyo , Mr Aniekan Brown , made this statement at a media briefing in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

At the briefing, Brown said the IPPIS was being run by a private company in the United States. Hence, Nigerians should do away with the mindset that anything comes from abroad is better.

He said: “ Those running the IPPIS are private company in the United States of Americans and by the laws of the United States, any data that touches down on the soil of the US after 14 days can be declassified .


“ And we are saying that Nigerians who are workers of the Federal Government should mortgage those details to be bound abroad and if anything happens there then nothing goes on here?

“ An average of N5 bn is being wasted every year to service IPPIS. If you look at the last budget , it ranges from N 3 bn to N10bn , so , you can average that at N5 bn. Check the budgetary allocations and how much goes into servicing the IPPIS platform , then you will know how much Nigeria is wasting ,” Brown said