 The Federal University's Polytechnics and Colleges of Education have been taken off from the integrated personnel payment system IPPIS. The exemption approval reached during the Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday comes as a relief to tertiary institutions across the country. The Minister of Education Professor Tahir Mahman disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents alongside other ministers on the outcome of the fake meeting noting that this takes immediate effect. According to him, the Council observed the Vice-Chancellors of Universities did not need to abandon their work to come to Abuja to process the salaries of their personnel. It was a very happy day for the education sector because one of the problems which the Vice-Chancellors, Directors and Provost of College of Education, those managing the tertiary sector in Nigeria, have been complaining about, have been the subscription to IPPIS. You know what IPPIS does and which has made recruitment and many other activities of the University relating to personnel, very, very difficult. Now today, today's Council, today's Council has been decided, the President has directed the Vice-Chancellors should no longer have been taken out of that service. So it is a very, very important development for the Vice-Chancellors that will allow for efficient management of the universities.