By Mu’azu Abubakar Albarkawa, Kaduna
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria says shortage of academic staff has hits its faculties medical sciences, arts and other departments due to the deployment of the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS).
Prof. Kabiru Bala, Vice-chancellor of the University disclosed this in an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of the 2023 induction ceremony for 67 newly qualified doctors from the university.
Bala, represented by Prof. Danladi Ameh, Deputy Vice-chancellor (Academic) said university was in need of academic staff not only in the college of medical sciences but in other faculties such as the faculty of arts.
” Specifically, department of philosophy they need academic staff, as the department has been managing with sabbatical staff and other staff on contract.
“Since the deployment of IPPIS, we have not been able to pay for them and they subsequently disengaged hence the imperative uplifting the ban on employment for the University.
“We will love to have liberty to employ more staff. Currently we can not employ, even if we do we don’t pay them because we don’t have the means to pay them,” he said.
He, therefore, said universities should be given the autonomy to employ staff.
The vice-chancellor , urged the inductees to go out and perform well; work with confidence and make their alma-mata proud.
He said that the inductees had received pre-requisite training from ‘good hands’ and that they had demonstrated it to the public while practising.
Martaba FM reports that the Dr. Tajuddeen Sanusi, Registrar Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria administer the oath to the 67 new qualified medical doctors.
Sanusi admonished the inductees against travelling out of the country and leaving the masses at the mercy of quacks.
