Coldie:
My only question is why is the FG paying lecturers salaries when universities still collect fees.

pfadom:
Why will selfish ASUU subscribe to the IPPIS when most of their members work in one or more other universities or polytechnics as associate or part-time lecturers.

I know some of the fulltime staff of UI and OAU who also lecture at FUOYE, any of the state or private universities. This IPPIS would not allow duplication of names.

How do you think some selfish ASUU members would support this heinous act of selfishness and sabotage?

kolafolabi:
I support FG on this. It is a welcome development. I am just curious why ASUU opposed the payment system out of all agencies working with the FG.

Coldie:
My only question is why is the FG paying lecturers salaries when universities still collect fees.

pharmagba:
Our lectures want to lecture in more than one university and be on the payroll of all of them but because of their BVN , the system will not allow for this.
They should understand that circumventing the system in any way is tantamount to corruption. The minstry of finance should not bend backwards to accommodate this.
No lecturer in a federal institution must lecture in another federal institution but rather in a state institution instead. This should be good enough for them
I think this lectures collecting in more than one institution is the reason they have not been able to think outside the box or come out with inventions that can bring about development and growth in our nation.

kolafolabi:
I support FG on this. It is a welcome development. I am just curious why ASUU opposed the payment system out of all agencies working with the FG.

kolafolabi:
I support FG on this. It is a welcome development. I am just curious why ASUU opposed the payment system out of all agencies working with the FG.

Nwaonyishi69:
It amazes me how people take sides on an issue based on one side of a story. So, I wonder if some are paid to be waiting to read a news item and line up behind the news without recourse to reflection. I am really sorry for us, as we continue speedily in our tribal, partisan, crony, religious and sectarian gauged alliance in every public matter.

IsraelSongz:
Very nice. It's now on the Federal government to invest those savings on things that will benefit every Nigerian(including the common man).

Nwaonyishi69:
It amazes me how people take sides on an issue based on one side of a story. So, I wonder if some are paid to be waiting to read a news item and line up behind the news without recourse to reflection. I am really sorry for us, as we continue speedily in our tribal, partisan, crony, religious and sectarian gauged alliance in every public matter.

pharmagba:
Our lectures want to lecture in more than one university and be on the payroll of all of them but because of their BVN , the system will not allow for this.
They should understand that circumventing the system in any way is tantamount to corruption. The minstry of finance should not bend backwards to accommodate this.
No lecturer in a federal institution must lecture in another federal institution but rather in a state institution instead. This should be good enough for them
I think this lectures collecting in more than one institution is the reason they have not been able to think outside the box or come out with inventions that can bring about development and growth in our nation.

Coldie:
My only question is why is the FG paying lecturers salaries when universities still collect fees.

kevoh:
ASUU want scam us. Virtually all FG agencies are under IPPIS which has helped to curb ghost workers and bogus payments to at least 90%. So these lecturers have been collecting double and triple salaries under the guise of being employed as staff in different Federal Universities. They know IPPIS will burst their scam, that's why they are against it.

Logachev:


Students pay all fees directly to the federal government through Remita. No government university accepts fees from any student.

Reference:
This is a very easy situation.... simply stop the funding. How can a sub-establishment decide how it is going to be run. If colleges request for payment autonomy that is tantamount to financial independence and the government should stop that illegality by withdrawing funding, simple.

I have said it countless times, college education is not compulsory anywhere in the world and in a country like Nigeria struggling with a run away population and limited resources, it simply cannot be free. Universities need to be completely autonomous.

I suggest government ptivatises them. Identify trusts or what we call co-operatives and transfer all assets to them to run including a viable 'pay-off', seed money to keep them running for a while, while they adjust to new realities.

Universities are in reality, business centres where all folks, all society, invest in education and research and reap skilled labour and solutions to everyday challenges. It is not primary school education for basic literacy.

If we treat them like America treats its Harvards, Princetons and MITs or Britain treats its Oxfords and Cambridges then we begon to get the same results and begin to attract serious investment for both human and capital development. We treat our colleges now like grade schools so they are.

kolafolabi:
I support FG on this. It is a welcome development. I am just curious why ASUU opposed the payment system out of all agencies working with the FG.

kevoh:
ASUU want scam us. Virtually all FG agencies are under IPPIS which has helped to curb ghost workers and bogus payments to at least 90%. So these lecturers have been collecting double and triple salaries under the guise of being employed as staff in different Federal Universities. They know IPPIS will burst their scam, that's why they are against it.

Coldie:
My only question is why is the FG paying lecturers salaries when universities still collect fees.

iswallker:


the most sensible comment I have read on the solution to the decaying tertiary education sector in Nigeria...

picoba:
Even the law maker didn't joining IPPIS. What ASSU is fighting for is to capture all their allowances into the payroll system.

kjsun15:
the initiative is good as you people look at it from the outlook. but people needed to be educated on why ASUU opposed the exploitative pay roll:

1) when ASUU was asked to join the pay role, ASUU ask some fundamental questions which the consultant of the exploitative scheme couldn't say a word e.g. on the pay roll design, retirement age is 60 years as against normal 65 years for any civil servant and 70 years for prof. and readers in the university extant law. so the ippis automatically log you out of pay roll once you are 60years as a prof or reader.

2) federal universities staff tax varies across the nation with peculiarity among the host state. for example, federal uni of Ibadan staff have different tax structure compared to his colleagues from uni of Nigeria and this is achievable through the ability of each school governing council to negotiate with the host governor as cost of living varies nation wide. The Ippis only has unique tax structure that does not create room for variability in living cost across the federation hence university autonomy is violated.

3) Has the military staff been integrated? Have the national assembly payees and staff been integrated to Ippis? the answer ASUU got from the consultant was Capital letter NO. Why intimidating ASUU as if ASUU is the Nigeria's problem.

4) it is good to save cost and reduce wastages, please, where did the govt invest the said saved 250 billion since the introduction of ippis. ASUU queried that they could not pin point where the saved cost is!

5) the initiative of IPPIS is good but the component is modern day slavery that is designed by world bank to further enslave workers from underdeveloped countries. ASUU ask for proper remodification to suite our economy, as researchers, to better the poorly design Ippis that the consultant in charge could not explain some components comprehensively.

let me hold it here, cause there are lots of lapses that needed to be exposed........

kolafolabi:
I support FG on this. It is a welcome development. I am just curious why ASUU opposed the payment system out of all agencies working for the FG.