About 2 weeks ago, a friend visited me in my office and while we were discussing, he said he will love to be a lecturer. He is currently working in a good FG establishment with a relatively OK salary. He has worked there for about 10 years. I don't know what his salary is, but I asked him about the starting salary for a graduate and he said it's about N220,000 per month. I was like wow! That's not a bad monthly salary for a starter and he said yeah. Then, I told him that coming to academics is not a bad idea but that as a friend, he needs to know a bit about it before making a decision.

So, I told him that if he should leave that job for a university lecturing job, and since he has got no MSc degree yet, he will be employed as a Graduate Assistant (GA) with a starting salary of about N95,000 per month. Is he prepared to drop from close to N300,000 to N95,000? He was like that is unbelievable, you are underpaid. And I said that is not all. While you had been getting a promotion after a specified period in your organisation, in the university you won't be promoted after employment till you get a Master's degree.

I continued. As a GA you will have to enrol in a master's program. There is no research grant for staff in training, so you may have to save your salary or take a loan to do the MSc research. As staff in training, you are expected to finish within 3 years. Whenever you are done, you will be upgraded to Assistant Lecturer to earn about N118,270 per month.

As Assistant Lecturer, you enrol for a PhD. There is still no PhD research grant except you are lucky to get a TETFund scholarship. If you aren't lucky, you save part of your salary for the PhD research which you are expected to finish within 5 years. It could take a longer time.

3 years later you are expected to have published 1 journal paper or gone to conferences to present 2 papers from the research you did with your salary to be qualified for promotion. If you don't have that, the years you have taught do not matter, you will have to wait until you meet the said requirement. If you succeeded, you will be promoted to the rank of Lecturer II with a starting salary of about N129,724 per month.

3 years later you are expected to have published 3 journal papers with conference papers from the research you did with your salary to be qualified for promotion to Lecturer I. If you don't have that, you will have to wait until you meet the requirement irrespective of the years you have taught. If you succeeded, you will get a salary of close to N160,809 per month as Lecturer I.

The next promotion after another 3 years is to the rank of Senior Lecturer. To qualify for this rank, you must have obtained your PhD with at least 6 journal papers in recognised journals and 4 conference papers. Without meeting the waiting period, PhD, and the publication requirement, you won't be promoted no matter the number of years and number of students you have taught. Note that you will do the research with your personal fund and pay for the publication with your personal fund. As a senior lecturer, you will have a salary of N222,229 per month. That is the salary of a starter in your organisation in same Nigeria.

The promotion to the rank of Reader (Associate Professor) will come after 3 years and after meeting the research and publication requirements of 10 journal papers and 5 conference papers, PG supervision, etc. That earns you a salary of N277,179 per month. Then you become a Professor 3 years later after meeting its own research and publications requirement 15 journal papers and 7 conference papers, PhD supervision, etc., to earn
a salary of N332,833 per month.

With the increasing number of students, loads of script to mark, teaching does not count for promotion but the output from the research that is not provided for. You save your salary to earn a promotion. No book grant, you buy books for yourself with your salary.

Nigerian public University lecturers are perhaps the only workers that use their salary to work to achieve the criteria set for their promotion.

I told him that if he should join the academics now, it will take him the next 12 years at least, to become a Senior Lecturer to earn the salary of a starter in his present organisation. And that since FG thinks the lecturers deserve no pay rise, it will take him the next 15 years of serious academic and research output to earn his present salary in his present organisation. Meanwhile, he will have to fund all that with his salary for that 15 years.

I asked if he still want to be a lecturer and he was mute. He was like this is bad and not fair. Then I said, when you see us in class teaching with all smiles and doing our best, it is not because we have a good salary and working conditions, but because we love the job and try to manage the little we are receiving to get the job done.

This is the life of the academic that you do not know. Their life may look glittering but it is not gold.

The poor welfare and work environment is telling on the quality of the output from the university. Some lecturers, especially the younger ones, are already getting pissed off and leaving or planning to leave. So, how long can we sustain this? Everyone keeps saying every lecturer should have a side hustle and stop complaining. That will be the worst thing to happen to Nigerian universities. Some of our colleagues with side hustle just come to teach and leave to manage their side hustle. You can ask the students the impact of such a lecturer on them. You don't want to have a university where lecturers just come to teach and leave for their side hustle. A university is not designed that way.

President Buhari, Adamu Adamu, Nasiru El-Rufai in 2013/2014 gave a detailed explanation on the several reasons why ASUU is always declaring strike actions. Adamu Adamu's articles on why ASUU is always on strike were something else. As a matter of fact, I have never seen a comprehensive article like El-Rufai's write-up in October 2013 that he titled: For those who no do not understand "why ASUU is on strike". Go back and read their words and listen to their videos and stop behaving like you need a thinking cap.

ASUU fight is for the survival of the system where you want your child to come for a degree program. We have helped the state governors to destroy public primary and secondary education. You have a choice to take side with the FG towards the destruction of the remnant of the education system or join the fight to save the system. The choice is all yours.

©Amoka

Our Nigerian lecturers are big scammers, FG know why they keep playing politics with them

Machinegun91:
Our Nigerian lecturers are big scammers, FG know why they keep playing politics with them

You don't understand a tenth of what they go through. Lecturers and Resident doctors are perhaps one of the most unfairly treated professionals in the country.

Interesting write-up.

Students and non academic workers and university dependent businesses remain the collateral damage of this continuous feud.

Nawa o

Na wa oooo
To think that I am already planning to become a lecturer
Though I love the job

aycorporat:
Na wa oooo
To think that I am already planning to become a lecturer
Though I love the job

In Nigeria? Seriously count the cost bro.

Nothing in life is worth dying for.

The lecturer forgot to tell you about the money they make from BLOCKING of courses, mandatory sale of handout etc.

Everyone will say, my job is bad! But no one wants to leave..

nairaman66:
The lecturer forgot to tell you about the money they make from BLOCKING of courses, mandatory sale of handout etc.

Everyone will you, my job is bad! But no one wants to leave..

That's the adverse effect of poor welfare don't you think?
No one would think to exploit anyone if they are well paid.
Besides selling your intellectual property in a school environment is not a crime.

With all due respect to Nigerian lecturers.

My question is...

@addexx
Who are the people that stipulated such requirements or is this the global standard for tertiary education?

Cos, It's obvious these "requirements" are in sheer contrast with the reality in Nigerian Universities.

addexx:



In Nigeria? Seriously count the cost bro.

Nothing in life is worth dying for.

But with the side hustles can one still make ends meet?

addexx:


That's the adverse effect of poor welfare don't you think?
No one would think to exploit anyone if they are well paid.
Besides selling your intellectual property in a school environment is not a crime.

Call your friend and explain this part to him. As a friend indeed you owe him a thorough explanation of what goes on in the four walls of the university. Cheers and goodluck

It is even more unfortunate that the same professors are made returning officers, INEC chairman, a vice president, and governors...yet, the institution is still in a deplorable state. Is it that they develop amnesia immediately they are elected/appointed into office? Or, does this confirm the maxim that the black man is intrinsically and genetically wicked and cannot manage anything?

And mr innocent who is only on a contract lecturing job is doing anyhow

He go soon collect it he no take time

Truth be told



Lecturers are under paid!


But do you know that it's more expensive to school in the south-South cum the southeast of Nigeria than the rest of the country?

Damn.

A serious eye opener.

So, professors don't even earn as much as I do even though my highest academic qualification is a master's degree?

He failed to mention that lecturers also have side hustle that helps to sustain them like sleeping with female students, and money for pass mark that is way beyond that his friends salary in a month.

BluntTheApostle:
Damn.

A serious eye opener.

So, professors don't even earn as much as I do even though my highest academic qualification is a master's degree?

350k max

Majority of the so called lecturers are sadists whether with good pay or not.

addexx:



You don't understand a tenth of what they go through. Lecturers and Resident doctors are perhaps one of the most unfairly treated professionals in the country.

Lecturers when wicked pass anything, most of them are only after money, failing intelligent students because they refuse to give you bribe. There is one in my school that sets wrong exam question so that it'll be literally impossible for any student to pass without bribe, everybody knows him for that, if you dare confront or report him to the HOD your own don finish, this idiot cumulatively makes about 2million naira from sorting every semester, my course rep is the one who usually collects the money from students at different levels and forward it along with the names of the students to this lecturer.

You guys behave like demi Gods, you treat students like trash, like they are nobody, you make them pass through unnecessary difficulty just to get a piece of paper.

Nigerian lecturers, Police men and Nigerian politicians are the same kind of people.

If federal government give ASUU any money they will share it among themselves, you all are just fighting for your own pocket, we all know that 99% of lecturers don't give a fvck about their students. The Federal government should not give ASUU a dinm

Na so one horñy bastard of a lecturer fail one of my class girl for final year just because this horñy bastard has been trying to sleep with this girl since 300L without any progress.

When I saw the kind of chat this useless fool was sending on WhatsApp to this girl I felt ashamed.

addexx:

About 2 weeks ago, a friend visited me in my office and while we were discussing, he said he will love to be a lecturer. He is currently working in a good FG establishment with a relatively OK salary. He has worked there for about 10 years. I don't know what his salary is, but I asked him about the starting salary for a graduate and he said it's about N220,000 per month. I was like wow! That's not a bad monthly salary for a starter and he said yeah. Then, I told him that coming to academics is not a bad idea but that as a friend, he needs to know a bit about it before making a decision.

So, I told him that if he should leave that job for a university lecturing job, and since he has got no MSc degree yet, he will be employed as a Graduate Assistant (GA) with a starting salary of about N95,000 per month. Is he prepared to drop from close to N300,000 to N95,000? He was like that is unbelievable, you are underpaid. And I said that is not all. While you had been getting a promotion after a specified period in your organisation, in the university you won't be promoted after employment till you get a Master's degree.

I continued. As a GA you will have to enrol in a master's program. There is no research grant for staff in training, so you may have to save your salary or take a loan to do the MSc research. As staff in training, you are expected to finish within 3 years. Whenever you are done, you will be upgraded to Assistant Lecturer to earn about N118,270 per month.

As Assistant Lecturer, you enrol for a PhD. There is still no PhD research grant except you are lucky to get a TETFund scholarship. If you aren't lucky, you save part of your salary for the PhD research which you are expected to finish within 5 years. It could take a longer time.

3 years later you are expected to have published 1 journal paper or gone to conferences to present 2 papers from the research you did with your salary to be qualified for promotion. If you don't have that, the years you have taught do not matter, you will have to wait until you meet the said requirement. If you succeeded, you will be promoted to the rank of Lecturer II with a starting salary of about N129,724 per month.

3 years later you are expected to have published 3 journal papers with conference papers from the research you did with your salary to be qualified for promotion to Lecturer I. If you don't have that, you will have to wait until you meet the requirement irrespective of the years you have taught. If you succeeded, you will get a salary of close to N160,809 per month as Lecturer I.

The next promotion after another 3 years is to the rank of Senior Lecturer. To qualify for this rank, you must have obtained your PhD with at least 6 journal papers in recognised journals and 4 conference papers. Without meeting the waiting period, PhD, and the publication requirement, you won't be promoted no matter the number of years and number of students you have taught. Note that you will do the research with your personal fund and pay for the publication with your personal fund. As a senior lecturer, you will have a salary of N222,229 per month. That is the salary of a starter in your organisation in same Nigeria.

The promotion to the rank of Reader (Associate Professor) will come after 3 years and after meeting the research and publication requirements of 10 journal papers and 5 conference papers, PG supervision, etc. That earns you a salary of N277,179 per month. Then you become a Professor 3 years later after meeting its own research and publications requirement 15 journal papers and 7 conference papers, PhD supervision, etc., to earn
a salary of N332,833 per month.

With the increasing number of students, loads of script to mark, teaching does not count for promotion but the output from the research that is not provided for. You save your salary to earn a promotion. No book grant, you buy books for yourself with your salary.

Nigerian public University lecturers are perhaps the only workers that use their salary to work to achieve the criteria set for their promotion.

I told him that if he should join the academics now, it will take him the next 12 years at least, to become a Senior Lecturer to earn the salary of a starter in his present organisation. And that since FG thinks the lecturers deserve no pay rise, it will take him the next 15 years of serious academic and research output to earn his present salary in his present organisation. Meanwhile, he will have to fund all that with his salary for that 15 years.

I asked if he still want to be a lecturer and he was mute. He was like this is bad and not fair. Then I said, when you see us in class teaching with all smiles and doing our best, it is not because we have a good salary and working conditions, but because we love the job and try to manage the little we are receiving to get the job done.

This is the life of the academic that you do not know. Their life may look glittering but it is not gold.

The poor welfare and work environment is telling on the quality of the output from the university. Some lecturers, especially the younger ones, are already getting pissed off and leaving or planning to leave. So, how long can we sustain this? Everyone keeps saying every lecturer should have a side hustle and stop complaining. That will be the worst thing to happen to Nigerian universities. Some of our colleagues with side hustle just come to teach and leave to manage their side hustle. You can ask the students the impact of such a lecturer on them. You don't want to have a university where lecturers just come to teach and leave for their side hustle. A university is not designed that way.

President Buhari, Adamu Adamu, Nasiru El-Rufai in 2013/2014 gave a detailed explanation on the several reasons why ASUU is always declaring strike actions. Adamu Adamu's articles on why ASUU is always on strike were something else. As a matter of fact, I have never seen a comprehensive article like El-Rufai's write-up in October 2013 that he titled: For those who no do not understand "why ASUU is on strike". Go back and read their words and listen to their videos and stop behaving like you need a thinking cap.

ASUU fight is for the survival of the system where you want your child to come for a degree program. We have helped the state governors to destroy public primary and secondary education. You have a choice to take side with the FG towards the destruction of the remnant of the education system or join the fight to save the system. The choice is all yours.

©Amoka

You painted it as if after Salary nothing more, how about academic allowance, research grants, etc.

addexx:


That's the adverse effect of poor welfare don't you think?
No one would think to exploit anyone if they are well paid.
Besides selling your intellectual property in a school environment is not a crime.

Selling anything is not a crime but forcing or coercing people to buy them is

Op your friend just pull your ni o, is there any FG organization collecting more than 200k for a starter,? NNPC excluded.

95k for a Graduate Assistant, that's Level 13/14 salary for teachers in some states. Government teachers are so underpaid.

addexx:

About 2 weeks ago, a friend visited me in my office and while we were discussing, he said he will love to be a lecturer. He is currently working in a good FG establishment with a relatively OK salary. He has worked there for about 10 years. I don't know what his salary is, but I asked him about the starting salary for a graduate and he said it's about N220,000 per month. I was like wow! That's not a bad monthly salary for a starter and he said yeah. Then, I told him that coming to academics is not a bad idea but that as a friend, he needs to know a bit about it before making a decision.

So, I told him that if he should leave that job for a university lecturing job, and since he has got no MSc degree yet, he will be employed as a Graduate Assistant (GA) with a starting salary of about N95,000 per month. Is he prepared to drop from close to N300,000 to N95,000? He was like that is unbelievable, you are underpaid. And I said that is not all. While you had been getting a promotion after a specified period in your organisation, in the university you won't be promoted after employment till you get a Master's degree.

I continued. As a GA you will have to enrol in a master's program. There is no research grant for staff in training, so you may have to save your salary or take a loan to do the MSc research. As staff in training, you are expected to finish within 3 years. Whenever you are done, you will be upgraded to Assistant Lecturer to earn about N118,270 per month.

As Assistant Lecturer, you enrol for a PhD. There is still no PhD research grant except you are lucky to get a TETFund scholarship. If you aren't lucky, you save part of your salary for the PhD research which you are expected to finish within 5 years. It could take a longer time.

3 years later you are expected to have published 1 journal paper or gone to conferences to present 2 papers from the research you did with your salary to be qualified for promotion. If you don't have that, the years you have taught do not matter, you will have to wait until you meet the said requirement. If you succeeded, you will be promoted to the rank of Lecturer II with a starting salary of about N129,724 per month.

3 years later you are expected to have published 3 journal papers with conference papers from the research you did with your salary to be qualified for promotion to Lecturer I. If you don't have that, you will have to wait until you meet the requirement irrespective of the years you have taught. If you succeeded, you will get a salary of close to N160,809 per month as Lecturer I.

The next promotion after another 3 years is to the rank of Senior Lecturer. To qualify for this rank, you must have obtained your PhD with at least 6 journal papers in recognised journals and 4 conference papers. Without meeting the waiting period, PhD, and the publication requirement, you won't be promoted no matter the number of years and number of students you have taught. Note that you will do the research with your personal fund and pay for the publication with your personal fund. As a senior lecturer, you will have a salary of N222,229 per month. That is the salary of a starter in your organisation in same Nigeria.

The promotion to the rank of Reader (Associate Professor) will come after 3 years and after meeting the research and publication requirements of 10 journal papers and 5 conference papers, PG supervision, etc. That earns you a salary of N277,179 per month. Then you become a Professor 3 years later after meeting its own research and publications requirement 15 journal papers and 7 conference papers, PhD supervision, etc., to earn
a salary of N332,833 per month.

With the increasing number of students, loads of script to mark, teaching does not count for promotion but the output from the research that is not provided for. You save your salary to earn a promotion. No book grant, you buy books for yourself with your salary.

Nigerian public University lecturers are perhaps the only workers that use their salary to work to achieve the criteria set for their promotion.

I told him that if he should join the academics now, it will take him the next 12 years at least, to become a Senior Lecturer to earn the salary of a starter in his present organisation. And that since FG thinks the lecturers deserve no pay rise, it will take him the next 15 years of serious academic and research output to earn his present salary in his present organisation. Meanwhile, he will have to fund all that with his salary for that 15 years.

I asked if he still want to be a lecturer and he was mute. He was like this is bad and not fair. Then I said, when you see us in class teaching with all smiles and doing our best, it is not because we have a good salary and working conditions, but because we love the job and try to manage the little we are receiving to get the job done.

This is the life of the academic that you do not know. Their life may look glittering but it is not gold.

The poor welfare and work environment is telling on the quality of the output from the university. Some lecturers, especially the younger ones, are already getting pissed off and leaving or planning to leave. So, how long can we sustain this? Everyone keeps saying every lecturer should have a side hustle and stop complaining. That will be the worst thing to happen to Nigerian universities. Some of our colleagues with side hustle just come to teach and leave to manage their side hustle. You can ask the students the impact of such a lecturer on them. You don't want to have a university where lecturers just come to teach and leave for their side hustle. A university is not designed that way.

President Buhari, Adamu Adamu, Nasiru El-Rufai in 2013/2014 gave a detailed explanation on the several reasons why ASUU is always declaring strike actions. Adamu Adamu's articles on why ASUU is always on strike were something else. As a matter of fact, I have never seen a comprehensive article like El-Rufai's write-up in October 2013 that he titled: For those who no do not understand "why ASUU is on strike". Go back and read their words and listen to their videos and stop behaving like you need a thinking cap.

ASUU fight is for the survival of the system where you want your child to come for a degree program. We have helped the state governors to destroy public primary and secondary education. You have a choice to take side with the FG towards the destruction of the remnant of the education system or join the fight to save the system. The choice is all yours.

©Amoka

Wow this is terrible

Each university should pay their lecturers while government should focus on infrastructure development in the university

Will the lecturers agree?



Full time private university lecturer work so hard yet their pay can't be compared to public university lecturer

It is this public university lecturer that go there to do useless adjunct

ASUU no see that


Tell jamb not to conduct exam again into federal University, let them fight want they want to fight

Machinegun91:
Our Nigerian lecturers are big scammers, FG know why they keep playing politics with them

Why are you saying so? Can you expatiate?

nairaman66:
The lecturer forgot to tell you about the money they make from BLOCKING of courses, mandatory sale of handout etc.

Everyone will say, my job is bad! But no one wants to leave..

they don't do that in my school thou. No sales of handout and same as blocking of courses

lereinter:


Each university should pay their lecturers while government should focus on infrastructure development in the university

Will the lecturers agree?



Full time private university lecturer work so hard yet their pay can't be compared to public university lecturer

It is this public university lecturer that go there to do useless adjunct

ASUU no see that


Tell jamb not to conduct exam again into federal University, let them fight want they want to fight

that means school fees will go up by more than 500%

tuzle:
that means school fees will go up by more than 500%

Or less

A sch like UI is doing grad, post-grad, distance learning etc and have been around for more than 70 should be able to pay lecturers

Since what mostly that ASUU is fighting for is money for salary

Let each sch face it

Not strike that will bring down all schs


Even government can aide students with bursary