Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, has announced that the federal government-owned tertiary institutions- universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, and monotechnics, will no longer need to obtain waivers from the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation to fill vacancies in their institutions.
Mr Mamman, a professor, made this disclosure on Thursday in Lagos while addressing the delegates at the 67th National Council on Education Meeting hosted by the Lagos State Government.
The new development is coming less than 24 hours after the announcement of the removal of the tertiary institutions from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) for the payment of their staff salaries and emoluments.
The minister thanked President Bola Tinubu for granting the requests, noting that the autonomy of the nation’s university system must be jealously guarded.
He said: “We want to specially, on behalf of the entire Nigerian tertiary education and indeed Nigerians, thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR for taking the tertiary institutions out of IPPS, and also (saving the heads of these institutions from) constant trips to the Office of Head of Civil Service of the Federation for wavers to fill gaps in their personnel need.”
