House of Reps Plans to Remove Federal Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions from IPPIS
The House of Representatives says that the National Assembly is committed to removing federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education from IPPIS.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives says including federal tertiary educational institutions on the payment platform is anti-intellectual and anti-education.
Abbas spoke on the issue on Thursday during the international conference of the gender policy unit of Ahamdu Bello University, Zaria.
The speaker, represented by the senate education committee chairman, Dr. Abubakar Fuleta, also described the 450,000 take-home monthly salaries of a university professor as embarrassing to Nigeria’s education system.
He assured that the national assembly would ensure that the education sector received at least 26 percent of the federal budgetary allocation to meet the requirements of the United Nations.
He said fighting poverty, gender inequality, and insecurity was not merely a moral imperative but a fundamental necessity for the progress and prosperity of the nation.
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Abbas was also a recipient of the Award of Excellence in the Fight against Poverty, gender inequality, and insecurity at the conference.
Earlier, Prof. Kabiru Bala, Vice-Chancellor, of ABU, said the conference was another step towards realizing ABU’s aspiration of becoming a world-class academic and research institution.
Bala was represented by Prof. Ahmed Doko, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration.
He said the conference provides an opportunity for professionals in academia, security, and other stakeholders to engage in critical discourse on the implications of insecurity to the SDG goals.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the three-day conference has `Gender and Security in Africa: the Implications for Sustainable Development Goals’ as its theme.
