Prof. Abayomi Fasina, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, (FUOYE) has urged the government to raise the salary of academics in the country.
He emphasized that a professor should not earn less than N1m per month.
Speaking at Oye Ekiti, Prof. Fasina expressed his support for the Federal Government’s decision to exempt public universities from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
He believed that this move would grant universities greater independence and allow for more efficient management of their affairs.
Speaking on the benefits of exit from IPPIS, the VC said, “The advantage is that we are now independent to decide on proper management of the system. We can always also take from our IGR to supplement what we are given by the government.
“Another advantage is that we want the government to increase our salary and with this development, we can subsidise such increment with our IGR. We are currently poorly paid as lecturers in Nigerian universities. For example, a professor should not earn less than a million naira.
“This development will save us a lot of trouble of running to Abuja to get approval for so many things we can easily handle on our own. Such things as recruitment and others. We have the autonomy now and we can manage our system efficiently on our own.
“There is so much bureaucracy in IPPIS which gives us so much headache. We have some of our staff members who have not collected their salary for many months now because of that bureaucracy. We have a situation where a former VC who went on sabbatical was denied his salaries on return for several months due to the bottlenecks of IPPIS.”
