The Office of the Accountant-General of the federation has advised all Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, who have not updated their bank details in compliance with the Nigerian Uniform Bank Account Number, NUBAN, policy to do so as failure to comply may result in the delay of payment of salaries. A statement issued over the weekend in Abuja by the Deputy Director, Press, Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr. Nwodo, Charles, tagged ‘NUBAN Information Compliance’ warned that the NUBAN policy became effective July1, 2013. It stated that “The office of the Accountant General of the Federation is advising all Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, who have not done so to update their bank details as the deadline by CBN for compliance with the Nigerian Uniform Bank Account Number, NUBAN, policy became effective July1, 2013. “Failure to comply may result in the delay of the payment of salaries henceforth. However, if any staff experiences any delay in the payment of his/her salary he/she should confirm that the banking details have been accordingly updated and forwarded to IPPIS”. The CBN released guidelines on NUBAN scheme in August 2010 to achieve uniform numbering structure among all Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria within nine months. NUBAN, according to CBN, “has great potentials to resolve the observed problems with electronic payments in Nigeria, as many of them are related to specification of wrong beneficiary account numbers.” The initial deadline was June 1, 2011. This was extended by CBN to June 1, 2012, at the expiration of which it was further extended to July 1, 2013. Consequently, NUBAN became fully operational on July 1, 2013 and all staff are supposed to have complied with it. The statement warned that “This may lead to none crediting of some Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information Systems, IPPIS, based civil servants’ salaries”. It also pointed out that prior to this date MDAs on IPPIS were adequately notified and requested to obtain the NUBAN from their staff and forward same to IPPIS before the deadline. “This request may not have been fully complied with by some MDAs and may consequently lead to unnecessary hiccups in the payment of salaries,” it stressed.
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