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  • Govt agencies to enrol into IPPIS pay system

    President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that all Federal Government agencies, which are funded through the budgetary provisions, should be enrolled on the Integrated Personal Payroll Information Service (IPPIS) project on or before December.

    The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF) spoke on the directive at a four-day workshop on Gap Analysis for Human Resources Role Players on IPPIS in Abuja.

    He said: “After a critical assessment and consultations with stakeholders, especially the specialised institutions, such as universities and hospitals, polytechnic and colleges, the government has noted their concerns and peculiarities of operation and promised to address their concerns through proper channels.

    “Their challenges shall be addressed through the proper configuration and customisations of the software for the IPPIS/HRMIS to accommodate any envisaged curiousness.

    “I strongly believe that this project is noble and worth being identified, hence we must take ownership of its full implementation to ensure accurate and proper repositioning of the emolument system for the public service workforce.

    “Since the beginning of this strategy, the progress recorded so far shows that about 235 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have fully enrolled into the IPPIS scheme, proving that more than 855 of the IPPIS modules on payroll emolument are operational; less than 15 per cent of the human resource component is functional.”

  • FG recovers N34b from illegal MDA accounts

    FG recovers N34b from illegal MDA accounts

    The Federal Government said it has so far recovered N34billion out of the N58billion traced to illegal accounts operated by some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

    The MDAs were alleged to be generating revenues and diverting them instead of remitting them into the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) Account maintained at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

    Briefing journalists in Abuja on Monday at the inauguration of two committees on Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS) and the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS),  the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the federal government will take further measures to ensure that the government gets what is due to it.

    She said, “We had to act fast as agencies that are revenue generating refused to comply with the provision of remitting 25 per cent of such funds to the treasury. We pleaded with them, tried to dialogue with them, but it was not working. So we had to take some drastic measures. We have so far recovered N34 billion of such monies and have factored it into cash backing for second quarter release for budget 2013.”

    The federal ministry of finance had last month disclosed that some revenue generating agencies in collusion with banks were withholding about N58 billion generated by some government agencies but not remitted to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF).

    The ministry then threatened that from Monday, June 17 the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, will close such accounts in all banks. This process of systematic closure the ministry said will continue until all monies that should be in the Consolidated Revenue Fund are retrieved.