Artzdanielsz:
Pixel phone will do, like p5

Thanks a lot. But from information I obtained online, Google Pixel phones are quite expensive.

Good morning Nairalanders.
My friend who sells clothes online (Instagram, Facebook etc) needs a new phone with good camera for taking pictures and videos of her merchandise. She's on a budget of 200k max.

She's particular about picture and video quality and nothing else.

Please, which phone can you suggest?
Thanks for your time and suggestions

Cc: mynd44, dominique, Nlfpmod, Seun.

ogawisdom:


Very sure but it's a consolidated salary that includes all his allowances

My guy are you really sure about this? I know that the consolidated salary of the VC of a federal University is around 700k. I don't know which university pays 1.8m to the VC. However, a VC can be richer than a LG chairman, it all depends on how corrupt he is.

Maxcollins042:


And these provisions are subsidized for the students sef.

Yes ooo. Most people here speak out of ignorance. Some universities actually make a lot of IGR but they still spend it in running the university. There's infrastructural deficit in every federal University in Nigeria, instead of Government to look for ways to ensure that university managements utilize these IGR appropriately in solving some of the problems, they want to collect it. In some universities, lecturers don't even have offices. Some have offices but no furniture. There are classes without adequate furniture. Lecturers teach hundreds of students without public address system. Issues plenty well well.

pendragonbladgo:

Who pay Lecturers?

Who fund TETFUND
Is like you want form country for the same country abi

The government doesn't fund Tetfund. Go and enlighten yourself by reading the Tetfund act before displaying ignorance in the public.

You clearly have no idea what it takes to run a university. Let me list some of the items that gulp a lot of money.
Printing paper
Maintenance of buildings and equipment
Fuel and Diesel for generators
Electricity bills
Chemicals and reagents for laboratories
Other laboratory consumables
Stationeries
DTA for external examination, SIWES etc.
Production of other materials like ID cards, examination booklets, SIWES logbooks, boards etc.
and many others.

Note that there's part of the school charges that goes to the government already. The rest is for the things I mentioned above and I'm telling you that in most schools what they get from the charges is not nearly enough to take care of these things I mentioned.

frog12:
time to cancel TETFUND. use the money to upgrade local universities and pay lecturers. what a waste

Tetfund was established by an act and the money there comes from taxing 2% of the profits of every company in Nigeria. The money cannot be used to pay lecturers and it's not something that can just be cancelled like that.
I agree with you that it should be used to upgrade local universities but I don't know what their problem is in that Tetfund.
They can dedicate funds to just 6 universities, one in each geopolitical zone and upgrade them to the level of highly rated universities in the world and then sponsor people there. Spending 100 billion naira on each of these six universities in a space of 4 years should do. The money is there.
But they won't. Na to just dey steal the money.

Mrshape:

Show your workings

I can't. It's long. I even had to use wolfram to solve one of the equations involved. There's nothing like similar triangles in the question as suggested by some commenters above.

7.3238. Don't ask me how. It's a long solution.

Good morning Nairalanders. Please, I need to know more about this Droom Soccer people. They sent a document to my brother which indicates that they want to offer him opportunity to do a football tryout in England. He is to pay about 686,000 before the official letter of invitation to England will be given to him.
Personally, I don't trust this but my brother believes it.
Please share your experience or information regarding this if you have any. Thanks.
Attached is the offer letter.

Cc: mynd44, dominique, Nlfpmod, Seun.

Kajaard:
People keep complaining about the government as if they are the only corrupt people in the country.

The average Nigerian citizen is extremely corrupt. The society is completely rotten from top to bottom.

Corruption pervades everywhere - in schools, offices, churches and places of religious worship etc.

I agree with you totally. However in this case, a large large part of the blame still goes to the government. The VC and bursar were appointed by the university governing council. The members of the council are predominantly government appointees. The process of selecting VCs are never transparent and fair. The council members appointed by government are usually corrupt too. This Nigeria corruption problem is very complex. Only a miracle can get us out.
You won't believe the kind of corrupt practices that are carried out by VCs and bursars in Nigerian public universities. Of course, what do you expect from people appointed through a corrupt process.

OP, please provide the name of the school and the department. I'm suspecting there's something wrong with his admission.

EnergyEnergy:
Chai, things have happened ooo
Shey there no archeologist in Nigeria to study stuff like this in Nigeria so we can know more about the tradition of people who lived on this lands like 1000 years and more ago

There are archeologists ooo. I know a few. The problem is these excavations and expeditions require funds but the Nigerian system doesn't place premium on research and hence, no funding. Most of the few archeological activities going on in Nigeria are sponsored by foreign organizations and the findings are also being exported. There's a lot wrong with Nigeria.

I recently heard of a Nigerian archeologist who discovered that there were traditional glass industries in some parts of Nigeria predating the coming of the whites. He has been traveling round the world discussing these findings and being celebrated, but in Nigeria, nobody send the guy.

The universities will face the same problem when the schools resume from strike. Many tech guys handling IT in many universities have left. Young lecturers have left too. Right now, there are many non-brilliant lecturers but there are still some great minds. In few years time, only dullards will be will be working in the universities. If you like yourself, leave this country.

JJuanMiguel:
Nothing new here, ASUU have always been like this.
Most of them take the job as a part time job and you'll only see them in class twice in a semester.

You are just trying hard to prove to be anti-ASUU. The workload on most of these guys are unrealistic and they get peanuts at the end of the day. Most times, they do other runs just to meet basic needs and do needed research for promotion purpose. There's no doubt that there are bad eggs in the system, but if you want to be fair, you'll agree with me that many of these abnormalities will be corrected/reduced if the government is committed to raising the standard of education and improving the welfare of lecturers.

My Thoughts On ASUU Strike: Before We Start Experiencing Mass Suicide

*Prof Lanre Olaniyan*

My thinking is that everyone must be ready to shift. Apparently government has not shifted. Let’s look at the issues for the strike.

ASUU said there is corruption in universities, and ask government to send *Visitation Panel* to investigate them all including corrupt activities in Universities in line with University Act that this must be done every 5 years.

It took the 2020 strike before government set up the Committee. Till date government is yet to release its findings on the visits (Note that govt is in charge of funds through Governing Council and contracts). Government should release the report so that there must be consequences for actions. Government’s position is that they are still working on it and will release the report later.

Minister Adamu asked what universities are doing with IGR. But the IGR are within purview of government appointed Council which is supposed to be scrutinised by the Visitation Panel. Government should perform its function and not buckpass.

ASUU said, *IPPIS* is flawed and not adequate for universities. Government eventually agreed to test IPPIS. According to Minister Pantami, IPPIS is filled with huge errors and technical inefficiencies and failed integrity test. He further insinuated that funds were being siphoned from government through IPPIS.

Minister Adamu said *UTAS* performed better than IPPIS. Minister Pantami also said that IPPIS was introduced against the prescriptions of the laws of the land. Resolution.

Govt insisted that it will continue to use IPPIS despite these shortcomings. Even with the shortcomings, nobody should dictate to government. PRIDE.

ASUU complained about *Revitalisation Funds* for the University system. Government said they would put it in 2023 budget. Although govt is preparing supplementary budget for 2022, University Revitalisation Funds are not found worthy to be included.

Staff are owed *Earned Academic Allowances* for 8 years now. I am not sure any sector of public service was owed for that long. Government said that they will put it in 2023 budget and start disbursement by June (when they must have left).

ASUU said salaries should be increased *(Renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU/FG Agreement)*. Despite the fact that there was an agreement between ASUU and government *Renegotiation Committee* last June, Government said it can only increase salaries of a fresh PhD by 30,000 to about 149,000 naira monthly and the highest paid Professor by 60,000 naira to 476,000 naira only. A new professor will still earn below 400,000 naira monthly.

In fact the issue that University lecturers earn less than Polytechnic and Colleges of Education lecturers were not addressed. Results indicate that University lecturers will continue to earn less than Poly and COE lecturers.

Hence, none of the request for going on the strike had been met.

Government came to last Tuesday’s meeting with its decision and said that it was not open for discussion. ASUU should “take it or leave it”.

It should be noted that COE lecturers received their salaries when they went on strike. Staff of Research Institutes had been on strike for close to one year, their salaries have not been stopped. Even with the university system, only lecturers salaries were initially stopped.

*My Position:*

ASUU should purge itself of looking for other people’s welfare and focus only on its salaries.

ASUU, understand what the laws, policies and conditions of service said you should do and do it. You dont have to go beyond them.

ASUU members should behave like some other professionals such as Petroleum refineries and even doctors and focus on their own welfare.

Petroleum refineries have not worked in years but their staff still collect salaries. Don’t force the system to work well if there is nothing to work with. No doctor will go to the theatre for operation if there is no light. If there is no light, and no alternative, do only what can be done. You don’t have to go the extra mile.

Stay in your office and enjoy your salary. If there is nothing to work with, go to office and take tea and talk. If the office is too hot, stay in the corridor or go and sit under a tree. Universities such as UI is blessed with many trees. Leave the system to collapse if it should. Nothing concerns you there.

As a Lecturer, I have turned to janitor because university gates and classroom doors were locked and my HOD believes exam must continue. I have carried desktop on my head to the car and home since laptops were not provided by the university for my use.

ASUU members have turned to messengers dispatching memos when other unions are on strike. They have turned to clerical officers, maintenance officers etc to ensure things must work.

I am not sure other professions go on strike for the working facilities to be in shape. ASUU should follow this. If classroom doors are locked. Go back home. If Exam department does not work stay in your office, grade your scripts and pass it forward etc.

ASUU members should not struggle for their universities to get accreditation. If accreditation is withdrawn, go to your office and sit down. Government should do the needful. It does not concern you.

Many are not aware that lecturers sometimes contribute money to buy equipment for their dept to pass accreditation. This should stop.

Nobody in the university get a single promotion for teaching. Good teachers do not get promoted, only good researchers do.

You dont have to teach well since your progression does not depend on it. Focus on your research as this is what your condition of service says.

ASUU members, please develop your grantseeking and Research delivery capacity and skills. If government believes that students should be taught well, let them change the conditions of service so that only teaching is used for promotion.

Register an NGO to achieve your research objective and obtain your grants.

In many instances, research grants that go through the university system goes through TSA (another illegally deployed platform for the University system which Minister Pantami also said failed technical efficiency and integrity tests).

Direct your research grants to your NGO if you don’t want to have mental issues and hypertension.

Each lecturer is expected to teach not more than 6 courses, ASUU should insist on this. If there are no lecturers to teach other courses, stay within what the law says you should teach. If nobody graduates, its none of your business. Stay within what the policy says.

The life of every lecturer matters. Do not work yourself to death. Be mindful of your health. The system does not warrant you destroying your mental and physical health.

Nobody is talking about children of lecturers who are students, spouses of lecturers who are students or lecturers who are themselves PhD students.

Do we really believe that lecturers’ lives matter?

Do the lives of lecturers dependants matter?

ASUU members, please focus on your research and remove your emotions from the work. Do only what the law and policy states since this is the perception of everyone.

If you are not happy with the university system find a job in an international agency or private sector. Determine your happiness and progression. Don’t let government destroy your happiness. Refuse to continue to be a slave.

Finally, if you have the wherewithal, send your child to a private universities, we are already singing “nunc dimitis” for govt owned universities. We will get there with the present attitudes of everyone.

We can agree to quote Trade Dispute Act not to pay outstanding salary of March to date, but IPPIS was deployed breaking the Communications and ICT Act of 2005. Govt insists that it will not respect the details of the Act. ASUU can go to hell.

Govt can also break the University Miscelaneous Act of 2003 where conditions of service are explicitly stated.
Govt can further break other University Acts and laws of the land on Visitation Panel institution and reporting.

As for me, I am wondering if I should continue to believe in this system.

Can I ask my children to trust the system. Can u trust a govt who believes that some laws are sacrosanct and some should be broken with impunity.

Do I really want to go on strike. If i am emotional about university system, maybe my answer will be YES. If i remove the emotions and focus on my welfare only, maybe my answer will be NO.

Let ASUU remove emotions from our duties and I believe things will be better.

ASUU members, pls make sure you sustain your physical, emotional amd mental health. Your life matters for your loved ones. It does not matter to Nigerian government.

Should ASUU continue to fight for the University system? Maybe yes. Maybe no, depending on your belief.

Anyway, what do I know?
At least I know what I want… The story continues...

Prof Lanre Olaniyan

JJuanMiguel:

Lol
Total and comprehensive strike will be well defined in court.
ASUU members were after all directed to stay away from all academic and administrative activities.

Academic and administrative activities don't imply research activities. You don't expect people who have research grants with timeline to stop their research because of strike except for those that need the services of technologists since NAAT were also on strike. I'm done pointing this out to you, believe whatever you want.

Akwamkpuruamu:
So only Profs and Readers will go back to classes

SSANU and NASU are unions for non-academic staff. ASUU is for academic staff ranging from graduate assistant to professor.

JJuanMiguel:

Stop with all these excuses with research and community service.
When ASUU released the memo for the strike, it was tagged a total and comprehensive strike and that all services rendered by ASUU should be halted including these your excuses, project supervisions etc. In fact, that ASUU should not do anything during the period of the strike. Any lecturer who has been doing anything has been doing it for his/her own benefit as usual, such can not be used for blackmail.

There's nothing in that document that says "no research" during strike. No supervision doesn't mean no research. Past administrations have fruitlessly tried this and it didn't work. Worst case scenario, the matter will be settled in court, and based on the ILO principle of victimization ASUU will win. FG is just diverting attention, you'll see.

So many ignorant posts up there. You guys should enlighten yourselves on the job description of a lecturer. It's tripartite in nature: teaching, research and community service. Only teaching is suspended during the strike. You should know that in the academic system, research and community service are the most valuable as they determine quality and promotion. No academic is promoted by the quality of his/her teaching. Even if you are awarded best teacher, without the required research points you will not get promoted. A poor teacher with good research publications is considered to be better than an excellent teacher with poor research records.

Note that it's very difficult in the Nigerian system to be excellent at both teaching and research; most lecturers sacrifice one for the other.

PS: You guys should read ASUU's press release and you'll realize that FG is just playing games with everyone. Minister of Education's statement was just to divert the attention of the public.

Otunbaigwe:
The op didn't attach other benefits such as research allowance and other benefits attached to the basic salary monthly. That's the basic salary not the net salary op

That's the net my friend. You can check well. There's nothing like research allowance or any other allowance. In fact, a newly employed laboratory staff or technologist earns more than a graduate assistant because they get hazard allowances.

Nice and informative post. However, I find the Gaboon viper more beautiful than some of the snakes listed in the post.

Movies in no particular order:
Lord of the rings trilogy (Can't separate them),
Troy,
Pirates of the Caribbean: At world's end,
Titanic,
300 part 1,
Saworo ide,
Coming to america.

Series:
Prison break,
Game of thrones,
24,
Chuck,
One tree hill.

Palehair:

ASUU didn't agree on IPPIS, though some members were going behind their backs to be paid through IPPIS and they will soon be fished out according to ASUU but during their recent meeting, they agreed to be paid using the old system GIFMIS until UTAS is ready, no one agreed on IPPIS

I never said ASUU accepted IPPIS. This information you are passing around about GIFMIS is not true and you need to get your facts right. Ngige mentioned an hybrid system that combines the GIFMIS and IPPIS but we all know that it's just IPPIS as they used the same system from February to June.

Regarding ASUU members who registered on IPPIS, to what end is fishing them out. There are more pressing issues although various branches may handle that as they wish.

I rest my case on this issue

Palehair:

It was a mutual agreement between FG and ASUU

Only those enrolled in IPPIS are being paid. It's the same IPPIS that will be used to pay those that are being owed only that they don't need to register by themselves. This is the same method used to pay them from February to June.

Palehair:

They agreed to pay them through the old payment system called GIFMIS while UTAS is still being researched on

And you think they got paid through GIFMIS? I don't think so. The government is not using GIFMIS to pay anybody.

ProphetM0hammad:

What are some of those consequences?
Ngige should negotiate with them and offer them two months salary.

Let me first start by letting you know that a lecturer's job is tripartite in nature which consists of teaching, research and community service. During strike, only the teaching aspect is withdrawn, a lecturer is supposed to carry on with the other two. Most lecturers actually do research and community services during strike.

Now, after the strike is suspended, lecturers work double or more to try to bring the academic calendar back to normalcy though it might take a couple of uninterrupted academic years. To achieve this, lecturers won't go on annual leaves and some other leaves.

In addition, the lecturers who have enrolled under IPPIS are not being owed any salary.

With the above points, you should be able to at least guess some the consequences.

There are two extreme scenarios: truncation of the unfinished academic year and legal action.

ProphetM0hammad:

Part of the negotiations should be that ASUU will get only two months salaries as an act of good faith from the government. Even the two months is like a bonus.

The truth is the government doesn't want to pay but they know the consequences so they won't try it. Ngige already tried to initiate the no work no pay thing just as he did with the NMA it but he failed. ASUU is the only union in Nigeria that really knows and does unionism.

Palehair:

Your last comment has been rendered moot. I can confirm that lecturers are receiving alerts. It was a huge shock to me but this strike has taught me that force must be applied to anything we do in this country. Without that force, FG wouldn't have coughed out anything

Are you sure? Maybe those who have enrolled under IPPIS.

bobosh02:
it's on the official twitter handle of ASUU,so bloggers didn't carry any fake news

ASUU doesn't have any twitter handle. Those are parodies.

Ebenezar2021:
then ASUU should be scrapped

Lol.

sinkhole:
I am sure that, for now, IPPIS issue is the most pressing issue, if FG could adopt UTAS then ASUU would have scored a remarkable goal! FG definitely will ask ASUU to compromise one way or the other on the other issues, which I think ASUU should reasonably accept for now.
We live to fight another day

You are right. The FG has managed to make IPPIS the most pressing issue. If what i heard about some of the features in UTAS is true, then it's truly a remarkable goal. However, government can never be trusted.

samuelpeters:

FG will dribble them again.
They should be ready because if FG finally accepts this UTAS and ASUU is still on strike, they will use propaganda and deceive nigerians that ASUU doesn't have the interest of students at heart.

I agree that FG will try to dribble them but if ASUU leadership allows it, a lot of members will be discouraged and lose faith in the struggle. I think this is when the ASUU leadership needs to display intellectualism in strategy.