An associate Professor of University of Lagos, Dr Tunde Adeoye has lauded President Bola Tinubu for removing the Academic Staff Union of universities, ASUU, from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information system, IPPIS.
Adeoye, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics of the institution stated this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Sango – Ota.
“Tinubu has done well as IPPIS was not favourable to the university system because it is difficult for vice-chancellors to allow exchange programmes and even employ younger ones into the system.
“The development may make the education system to collapse gradually”, he said.
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Recall that President Tinubu had on Dec. 15, 2023 approved the exemption of federal universities, polytechnic, colleges of education and other tertiary institution workers from the IPPIS.
Adeoye noted that the needed reforms that were supposed to take place in the Nigeria’s education sector had not taken place due to many challenges affecting the sector.
“We are appealing to Federal Government for an upward review of our salary considering the current economic realities as our salary was last reviewed in 2009.
“The government should set up a negotiation panel, which would involve representatives of government and ASUU towards achieving lasting industrial harmony in the education sector”, he added.
Adeoye urged the Federal Government to increase the annual budgetary allocation to education in order to tackle the decay in infrastructure across the nation’s tertiary institutions.
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