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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by aspirebig: 9:24pm On Mar 11, 2018
Too bad
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by oyetunder(m): 9:25pm On Mar 11, 2018
And they will be blowing winds of grammar against political leaders during lectures.
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by grandstar(m): 9:26pm On Mar 11, 2018
Are there any research works that can be commercialised in the universities?
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by YemziAdez(m): 9:26pm On Mar 11, 2018
While I agree with some of the stated information, I cannot help but say that some of them are anecdotal.

I've been involved in a number of research projects, and I must say, we (Nigerians) are doing our best.

The last research project I volunteered on was on the study of insectivorous bats across different elevations on Afi and Obudu mountains in Cross River State.

My lecturer, who came from the USA won a number of research grants, and I must say, I've never ever in my life, seen the kind of equipments she bought upon Her arrival in Nigeria.

At the end of the project, we discovered that the population and/or diversity of bats on the mountain decreases as we ascend. Some of the findings will be published sooner rather than later (as the one shared is just a slice of the project).

But the big question is will our policy makers adhere to the suggestions and comments made in the article(s)?

If all of these are not tackled - by waking the government and policy makers from their dogmatic slumber, I'm afraid some folks will keep assuming that researchers (although not all) are squandering the research grants received.

Cheers

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by mvem(m): 9:30pm On Mar 11, 2018
TheKingIsHere:
Am sorry to say this but this country is DOOMED.

It is just a matter of time. Very soon, nothing will work.

My advice, start looking for how to leave this shiithole
...ya and the people in it are doomed too like you...why look for a way to leave when Niger border is not far...easy transit to Libya via Niger through katsina or zamfara....the things with u guyz is u dont watch news or read to see the outside world...the world itself is very bad with wars and unfair stuff going on in many countries....see the war in syria, conflict in south sudan, congo,burundi, somalia, the famine in north korea, ethiopia, erithrea, the poverty in cambodia,mynammar, Africa, unemployment rate increasing in many countries, the gun deaths in the US, and the developed world is not left out with more than half of the population of these countries are unhappy.... a lot are happening around the world and i bet ur place might be heaven for many....these are no excuses for whats happening but to brace oneself and be logical....look at the broader picture and reason beyond boundaries....

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Originalsly: 9:31pm On Mar 11, 2018
FlyboyZee:

Laughable? Some researches are so tasking that you become so exhausted...

Please, don't laugh at me, mock me or yab me if you ain't been in my shoes...
What change has any of your or your colleagues' exhausting researches that deserve an all expenses paid overseas vacation brought about? And your comment makes me wonder how can you be a researcher when you can't even grab what Op is saying?

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by chuksjuve(m): 9:34pm On Mar 11, 2018
Decibel:
…Says prostitutes from Italy bribe to graduate with second class upper

Comrade Samson Chijioke Ugwoke, National President of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has accused those saddled with the administration of universities of gradually killing education through corruption. Labour He claimed that female students abandon their studies to do prostitution abroad, especially in Italy, but end up graduating, sometimes, with second class upper degree because they bribe lecturers with lorry loads of cement when they come back.

Besides, the SSANU National President, who is the Chairman of Joint Action Committee, JAC, comprising National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Educational Institutions, NASU, and the SSANU, said some university lecturers use research grant to buy big cars, build houses and drink beer, while little or nothing is done on research. This, he said, was the reason for the mega rally university non-teaching staff had that took them to the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Assembly where they called for investigation into university administration across the country.

Ngokwe told Sunday Vanguard, “The mega rally is to sensitize the public about the plight of the university system as some people are gradually killing education through corruption in Nigeria. They don’t want any probe. We have asked government to set up Visitation Panels to all the universities that are overdue, let them study what is happening in the universities and unravel the corruption taking place because they are collecting IGR and they account to nobody. “We are not even talking about sex for marks, abuse of young girls and money for marks; when some graduating students make 2:1, some of them are not even in the country, some of them are doing prostitution in Italy but they are getting 2:1.“When she comes back and sends a lorry load of bags of cement to the lecturer, she will be awarded ‘A’ in his course. So many unwholesome things are happening in the system. “Let them investigate the research allowances they get which they are using to buy big cars and building houses and a lot of other works are finished at the beer parlour. By 3 o’clock they are already drinking till 11pm, that is where they do the research. “These are things we know and nobody is talking. They are at the staff club drinking beer till 10, 11 pm. Is that where they do the research? shocked :oLet government investigate the research allowances that are given out in the universities”. The union leader pleaded with the National Assembly to wade into corruption in the university system so as to make the place a proper place for education.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/university-lecturers-use-research-grant-buy-big-cars-build-houses-drink-beer-ugwoke-labour-leader/

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This is what happens when your political leaders come to power not on the merit of their academic prowess as a criterion but as gets to powers through rigging and godfatherism
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by AreaFada2: 9:34pm On Mar 11, 2018
Nothing new. We all know already.

Even Donald Trump knows @Sh!thole. grin grin cheesy cheesy cheesy
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Bluffly: 9:40pm On Mar 11, 2018
FlyboyZee:
This is a case of bad belle. You mean because a lecturer is researching, he/she is not supposed to drink beer, buy luxury cars or build good houses?

Do you know that they also earn a salary and other allowances beyond research funds/grants?

Do you know they also have cooperatives where they can take loans at very low single digit rates?

Do you also know that they also have access to the various Banks and building societies to obtain exorbitant loans, just like every other person?

Do you also know that the most successful cooperatives in Nigeria are being owned, run and managed by these same lecturers?

I don't get it. Are lecturers and researchers supposed too be lowlifes? Are they no longer part of the elites of the society?

Every research grant/donor has a way of checking on the beneficiaries to make sure that the research is properly concluded. So, all of you are just saying rubbish because of your ignorance. Is the researcher not supposed to gain some financial benefits for himself from the research project? Is the researcher supposed to go ńaked, be tattered and live like a pauper because (s)he is doing research? What do you people even mean self?

If you knew how drudgery research work can be, you'll even recommend for an all expenses paid holiday abroad for the lecturer to go chill after the conclusion of a research project.

Una just dey hate for nothing. Like they say, haters gonna hate.

This SSANU people self too mumu, instead of fighting for Government to improve their packages, na ASUU dem dey come player hate. Them never see something. Bunch of mofos...
Which research are they doing that we are not seeing. Do you think research is just to write paper. What research are the science and engineering departments doing that we can't see in our economy or on the media. Researches are meant to come about solutions, how many have we seen in Nigeria. What researches are being done by our management, social and humanities that cannot reflect at least vis-a-vis our corrupt politicians. We see what university researches is doing in other countries, so what are they doing here if not sleeping and waking up on frivolities.

And now all you can say is that they are stupid for not fighting for their stomach.

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Pointnoire(m): 10:03pm On Mar 11, 2018
FlyboyZee:
This is a case of bad belle. You mean because a lecturer is researching, he/she is not supposed to drink beer, buy luxury cars or build good houses?

Do you know that they also earn a salary and other allowances beyond research funds/grants?

Do you know they also have cooperatives where they can take loans at very low single digit rates?

Do you also know that they also have access to the various Banks and building societies to obtain exorbitant loans, just like every other person?

Do you also know that the most successful cooperatives in Nigeria are being owned, run and managed by these same lecturers?

I don't get it. Are lecturers and researchers supposed too be lowlifes? Are they no longer part of the elites of the society?

Every research grant/donor has a way of checking on the beneficiaries to make sure that the research is properly concluded. So, all of you are just saying rubbish because of your ignorance. Is the researcher not supposed to gain some financial benefits for himself from the research project? Is the researcher supposed to go ńaked, be tattered and live like a pauper because (s)he is doing research? What do you people even mean self?

If you knew how drudgery research work can be, you'll even recommend for an all expenses paid holiday abroad for the lecturer to go chill after the conclusion of a research project.

Una just dey hate for nothing. Like they say, haters gonna hate.

This SSANU people self too mumu, instead of fighting for Government to improve their packages, na ASUU dem dey come player hate. Them never see something. Bunch of mofos...

All your response you cleverly left out the issue of sex for marks , Research no hard unless you don't have a passion for it

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by oluezekiel(m): 10:09pm On Mar 11, 2018
In developed countries, they use grants to employ Graduate Research Assistants. Shithole country indeed.

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Nobody: 10:15pm On Mar 11, 2018
Pointnoire:


All your response you cleverly left out the issue of sex for marks , Research no hard unless you don't have a passion for it
Is that the only thing going on in the universities?
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Nobody: 10:16pm On Mar 11, 2018
Pavore9:


If you knew how drudgery research work can be, you'll even recommend for an all expenses paid holiday abroad for the lecturer to go chill after the conclusion of a research project.

There is nothing scary about research work unless one never had passion for it in the first place!
In the Nigerian clime everything about research is scary.
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by bskyb(m): 10:16pm On Mar 11, 2018
YemziAdez:
While I agree with some of the stated information, I cannot help but say that some of them are anecdotal.

I've been involved in a number of research projects, and I must say, we (Nigerians) are doing our best.

The last research project I volunteered on was on the study of insectivorous bats across different elevations on Afi and Obudu mountains in Cross River State.

My lecturer, who came from the USA won a number of research grants, and I must say, I've never ever in my life, seen the kind of equipments she bought upon Her arrival in Nigeria.

At the end of the project, we discovered that the population and/or diversity of bats on the mountain decreases as we ascend. Some of the findings will be published sooner rather than later (as the one shared is just a slice of the project).

But the big question is will our policy makers adhere to the suggestions and comments made in the article(s)?

If all of these are not tackled - by waking the government and policy makers from their dogmatic slumber, I'm afraid some folks will keep assuming that researchers (although not all) are squandering the research grants received.

Cheers


Brilliant!!!
I am a researcher and I know that a lot of what is being posted by people are half truths

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Nobody: 10:19pm On Mar 11, 2018
Bluffly:

Which research are they doing that we are not seeing. Do you think research is just to write paper. What research are the science and engineering departments doing that we can't see in our economy or on the media. Researches are meant to come about solutions, how many have we seen in Nigeria. What researches are being dome by our management, social and humanities that cannot reflect at least vis-a-vis our corrupt politicians. We see what university researches is doing in other countries, so what are they doing here if not sleeping and waking up on frivolities.

And now all you can say is that they are stupid for not fighting for their stomach.
Nigeria is structured in such a way that your research findings are inconsequential. Why do you think that it took a Canadian institution to take Dr abalaka out of the hopelessness of injecting himself with the HIV virus just to prove the potency of his vaccine? Think before you talk.

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Nobody: 10:22pm On Mar 11, 2018
YemziAdez:
While I agree with some of the stated information, I cannot help but say that some of them are anecdotal.

I've been involved in a number of research projects, and I must say, we (Nigerians) are doing our best.

The last research project I volunteered on was on the study of insectivorous bats across different elevations on Afi and Obudu mountains in Cross River State.

My lecturer, who came from the USA won a number of research grants, and I must say, I've never ever in my life, seen the kind of equipments she bought upon Her arrival in Nigeria.

At the end of the project, we discovered that the population and/or diversity of bats on the mountain decreases as we ascend. Some of the findings will be published sooner rather than later (as the one shared is just a slice of the project).

But the big question is will our policy makers adhere to the suggestions and comments made in the article(s)?

If all of these are not tackled - by waking the government and policy makers from their dogmatic slumber, I'm afraid some folks will keep assuming that researchers (although not all) are squandering the research grants received.

Cheers

You struck a vital point. The availability of the needed equipments
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Makaveli1166(m): 10:25pm On Mar 11, 2018
Troblem:
smiley



Research on what? ...brash to infinite no of stupidity? Haaa

humans are unwanted relics,an irriversible sponteniety triggered by biological chance.

A wishfull adabiatic proccess that will cut with infinite many steps which would ultimately leads to it natural extinction,if they don't obliterate themselves b4 then ofcos.
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Makaveli1166(m): 10:36pm On Mar 11, 2018
gratiaeo:
All research na research
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Nasir123(m): 10:47pm On Mar 11, 2018
FlyboyZee:

Laughable? Some researches are so tasking that you become so exhausted...

Please, don't laugh at me, mock me or yab me if you ain't been in my shoes...

Just listen to yourself undecided

If u are tired of being a lecturer, why don't you quit?
Is this the way 'they do' in de developed world?

Lazy and corrupt minded people everywhere.
How can this country be better for goodness sake?

Nonsense.

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by BluntBoy(m): 10:49pm On Mar 11, 2018
We already know this. Just go to the staff clubs of many of these universities and you are sure to find these irresponsible lecturers hanging out till midnight and blowing away research grants.
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Nasir123(m): 11:00pm On Mar 11, 2018
TheKingIsHere:
Am sorry to say this but this country is DOOMED.

It is just a matter of time. Very soon, nothing will work.

My advice, start looking for how to leave this shiithole

Leave for who na?
For our great grand children?


We stay.
If you're not part of the problem, you should strive to always be part of the solution.

God bless Nigeria.
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Nasir123(m): 11:04pm On Mar 11, 2018
Pavore9:


If you knew how drudgery research work can be, you'll even recommend for an all expenses paid holiday abroad for the lecturer to go chill after the conclusion of a research project.

There is nothing scary about research work unless one never had passion for it in the first place!

Exactly!

You can see the kind of people we have as lecturers cry

I cry for this country.
Every sector is totally polluted.

We can't just continue like this.
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Bluffly: 11:41pm On Mar 11, 2018
angels09:

Nigeria is structured in such a way that your research findings are inconsequential. Why do you think that it took a Canadian institution to take Dr abalaka out of the hopelessness of injecting himself with the HIV virus just to prove the potency of his vaccine? Think before you talk.
Truth the told. It is still the universities that will ensure that there researches are not inconsequential but because they also want to feed off, they won't. Let's stop blaming Nigeria for such as it has become an umbrella of justifying all low life acts. Nigeria is a country occupied by people not robots. You think before you talk.
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by jara: 11:42pm On Mar 11, 2018
It was good grades for sex that some students decided to fight.

Then came expired education on top of too many strikes and long graduation periods.

We also heard about lecturers in one university jumping to become professors after one year in another university.

All these are sad and unfortunate. But they can be cured, especially in the university environment which is still better than curing corruption in the whole country. Just as it is easier to clean up corruption in the judiciary.

Those that are suppose to effect the solution are looking for way out of the country - jumping from fry pan to fire. As someone rightly pointed out, who do you think is waiting to receive you in United States or Europe after failing to stand up and clean your own country. The old saying that when Nigerians are driven to the wall, instead of fighting back, they melt into the wall is very apt here.

Do you know how many students, blacks and other people of goodwill die fighting for their country? It is one thing to claim most Nigerians are helpless. If the same is true with students within your universities, you need to examine your head.

May be you are the problem, not your country.

mvem:
...ya and the people in it are doomed too like you...why look for a way to leave when Niger border is not far...easy transit to Libya via Niger through katsina or zamfara....the things with u guyz is u dont watch news or read to see the outside world...the world itself is very bad with wars and unfair stuff going on in many countries....see the war in syria, conflict in south sudan, congo,burundi, somalia, the famine in north korea, ethiopia, erithrea, the poverty in cambodia,mynammar, Africa, unemployment rate increasing in many countries, the gun deaths in the US, and the developed world is not left out with more than half of the population of these countries are unhappy.... a lot are happening around the world and i bet ur place might be heaven for many....these are no excuses for whats happening but to brace oneself and be logical....look at the broader picture and reason beyond boundaries....

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Expl0rers: 12:49am On Mar 12, 2018
this is pure truth

Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Yankee101: 12:50am On Mar 12, 2018
If the culture is not changed even a Trillion will not improve the learning experience in our universities.

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by KrystosCJ(m): 12:51am On Mar 12, 2018
Many might disagree but OP said the truth. If every thesis or final year project was implemented judiciously by our lecturers or leaders, don't you think Nigeria may be a better, more enlightened place?

I know of some lecturers in FUTO who never gave a sh!t about grades or academic glory of their students; all they wanted was your money or your ass, whichever you could offer. And if you didn't yield, you weren't given good grades or worse, you'd be made to fail.

But guess where they are now.. one is dead, so I heard and the other is dealing with some sort of kidney issue that seems irredeemable.

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Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by gloryman91: 3:17am On Mar 12, 2018
Our educational system has failed us.
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Meritocracy: 7:35am On Mar 12, 2018
This is absolutely true, the clear evidence is that immediately the receive research grant the first thing is to buy a research vehicle to show people that they are working on a particular research without even started the research and before they realise the effect of this avoidable expenses, the research money is finished in fueling and maintenance of research vehicle the money is finished and nothing to show at the end as research output. If the allegations are not truth what is the effect of those research in society and what have we invented in Nigeria except corruption and looting.
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by Lumig: 7:58am On Mar 12, 2018
Decibel:
…Says prostitutes from Italy bribe to graduate with second class upper

Comrade Samson Chijioke Ugwoke, National President of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has accused those saddled with the administration of universities of gradually killing education through corruption. Labour He claimed that female students abandon their studies to do prostitution abroad, especially in Italy, but end up graduating, sometimes, with second class upper degree because they bribe lecturers with lorry loads of cement when they come back.

Besides, the SSANU National President, who is the Chairman of Joint Action Committee, JAC, comprising National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Educational Institutions, NASU, and the SSANU, said some university lecturers use research grant to buy big cars, build houses and drink beer, while little or nothing is done on research. This, he said, was the reason for the mega rally university non-teaching staff had that took them to the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Assembly where they called for investigation into university administration across the country.

Ngokwe told Sunday Vanguard, “The mega rally is to sensitize the public about the plight of the university system as some people are gradually killing education through corruption in Nigeria. They don’t want any probe. We have asked government to set up Visitation Panels to all the universities that are overdue, let them study what is happening in the universities and unravel the corruption taking place because they are collecting IGR and they account to nobody. “We are not even talking about sex for marks, abuse of young girls and money for marks; when some graduating students make 2:1, some of them are not even in the country, some of them are doing prostitution in Italy but they are getting 2:1.“When she comes back and sends a lorry load of bags of cement to the lecturer, she will be awarded ‘A’ in his course. So many unwholesome things are happening in the system. “Let them investigate the research allowances they get which they are using to buy big cars and building houses and a lot of other works are finished at the beer parlour. By 3 o’clock they are already drinking till 11pm, that is where they do the research. “These are things we know and nobody is talking. They are at the staff club drinking beer till 10, 11 pm. Is that where they do the research? shocked :oLet government investigate the research allowances that are given out in the universities”. The union leader pleaded with the National Assembly to wade into corruption in the university system so as to make the place a proper place for education.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/university-lecturers-use-research-grant-buy-big-cars-build-houses-drink-beer-ugwoke-labour-leader/

Please move it to the appropriate section and send it to front page for wider view. Thanks
... It's not only our political elites that have failed us but also people put in charge of our esteemed Ivory Towers. These lecturers will also be blaming the politicians and lamenting about the situation of things in Nigeria AS IF THEY ARE NOT PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Re: University Lecturers Use Research Grants To Buy Cars, Build Mansions, Drink Beer by otokx(m): 8:06am On Mar 12, 2018
There are some bad eggs but the way non teaching staff unions are going on about this matter is shameful.

They too should look inwards at non teaching staff who engage in racketeering through admissions, hostel accommodation, transcript, certificates, school fees, movement and issuance of forms, nysc posting, age forging, etc.

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