Thanks guys for the feedback. I think I'll be sticking with the Toyota Matrix.

Franzese:
Bros there’s only one car in that your list.

First name : Mattix
Surname : Toyota

All the rest are crap,..,well except for the other Toyota brand.

Ok o

jacobjamie:

Bros, with due respect to ur own opinion I regret to announce to u that I disagree with it, A Toyota Metrix stand the times of all the obove mentioned pls, when it comes to 2nd hand value, to fuel economy (same engine capacity as a 2002/07 Corolla), durability, mechanic friendliness, user friendliness, cheaper parts, and most of all pocket friendly, even though they both have same body style, my cousin used both or human his wife, when I asked why same car like, he said the Pontiac vibe was a dash from an old friend but withing 3 month he sold it and kept the Toyota matrix cuzz it was more durable and friendlier...

Thanks for the detailed analysis.

Trustme2:

Go for Postiac Vibe. You can't go wrong with it. It's more rugged than the other listed cars and equally fuel economical. Engine is same as Corolla also but in terms of durability, it ranks highest among all. Wish you the best. I have a Tokunbo 2005 Pontiac Vibe though if you're interested

Thanks.

Hi,

Please I need informed recommendations per which of these car brands I should go for. Please the car is for a woman.

1. Toyota Matrix 2007

2. Honda Civic 2005

3. Pontiac Vibe 2005

4. Hyundai Elantra 2007

5. Mazda 3 2007

6. Toyota Avensis 2006

7. Honda Accord 2005


Thanks.

1.25 cash and carry?

Where is the electricity to watch?

Guzel:

I stopped reading reading after your description of lecturers in your institution because I know better to engage you in a senseless teaching / non teaching war going on in our institutions.
Obviously comprehension could be rocket science for some, i apportioned blame to everyone. I stated that our inability to attract foreign funding is a problem. By that, I meant academics as non teaching staff don’t engage in projects except the technologists.

I salute your maturity.

oshiox:
OK since lecturers are the worse. It's simple then the government should shut down Universities. It's ASUU that made the government not to build adequate hospitals, no roads, electricity et al.

How much do lecturers earn here compared to other climes?

As for research in my University inn the last 3 years they have made major breakthroughs in Agriculture and Medicine.... Did the government sponsor? No they did not.

I have a research work currently going on nobody is interested here guess who's interested? a school in Poland.

There are so many research work done in various universities that many are not aware of even when they go public no form of encouragement.

I remember a prof who worked on agriculture here and that research took him to Brazil. A work on Nigeria was implemented in Brazil.

So lets keep on throwing stones at ourselves here. Let the government continue having a swell time since they're paying us millions as salaries.

ASUU is at fault let the government that are saints shut Universities down.

Preach....

Guzel:


How many Nigerians can afford 800k fees for private institutions. How many private tertiary institutions can employ full time staff, promote them and pay their full entitlements. Most of them rely on lecturers from public institutions.
Government subsidized education in Nigeria, so they should be ready to fund institutions.
My concern for tertiary institutions is their inability to source for foreign funding for projects and poor IGR despite the huge population in our campuses.
Governing councils employ just to favour family and friends not because their is vacancy. 5 staff are lined up to do what a staff should do in sane societies.
If you are a staff of any tertiary institution, apparently you are one of the problems we have in the system. You are not there to solve a problem but for employment sake and “FEEL” vacancy.

Wicked

dollext:


‘Wht is university contribution to national development?’ Wht if Govt decide to ignore dem and pay more attention to other sectors who have contributed immensely to national development and in the long run polytechnics graduates and private university students would be employed to feel d current vacancy? Let’s continue watching in a 3D television.

You claim to be an accountant at University of Lagos, what do you think will become of you and the huge number of other non-academic staff members who are by the way much more than the academic staff, if government decide to ignore the university and focus on other institutions as you suggested? Do you think "alert" will keep rolling in? Of what use would you be?

LibrarianD:


I am really surprised that you work in one, you can as well resign. I'll try to increase your knowledge a little, while you read up on the rest during this stay-at-home.

Universities provide the required highlevel manpower for all the sectors of the Nigerian economy. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic frontline Medical personnel in testing and treatment in Lagos, includes substantially academics from CMUL/LUTH and other tertiary health facilities. This is seen as community service. This is in addition to the teaching and research functions. Compare the fatality rates of Nigeria to that of the first nations. There you have your answer. Stop being myopic, selfish, think beyond your take home.

I've read a lot of selfish post like yours and I'll point out certain facts. You benefitted from a highly subsidised tertiary education and also employed in one, with your meagre scale from Contiss 8 - 15, can you successfully train 3 of your wards in the private institutions? Your guess is as good as mine. I've followed ASUU for a long period and I know they always get the government back to the negotiating table, how they do it I don't know. I only hope members of other unions would not proceed on strike after an agreement between them (just like we read about the EA wahala).

I think I agree with with ASUU that the strike is beyond IPPIS, it's for the survival of public tertiary institutions for those that are poor (and the rich). The end game of government is to privatise public universities which would make it unaffordable for majority of Nigerians cos right now Ngr is the poverty capital of the world.

This is not the first time that salaries of ASUU members are withheld by NGR leaders. It may not even be the last. It's better you take it in now that ASUU is a top notch union with strong ideology of cheap access to tertiary education as a fundamental right of qualified students. It's always disheartening when I see other unions in tertiary institutions working against ASUU when they've done next to nothing to in this regard. Government sees university unions as one and ASUU as the intellectual leader that sees through the deceit of politicians.

The politics of this higher education unions tire me. You can always sense the hidden disdain for ASUU in their comments. When you ask them what they've done to improve the system...that's a $1B question

Thanks for the enlightenment.

Poorboy:
Research institute

Ok.

Poorboy:
March salary where we don chop finish na him una dey look phone chai

Which MDA?

k2kay:

No need to be sorry, its reality like u said. These people dont mean well at all. Lockdown without salaries being paid is madness. If there is one thing this Covid 19 pandemic has reinforced within me is that Nigeria is a failed state. We are just decieving ourselves!

Undiluted truth.

Benin

Face mask 500 per piece

Pack of hand gloves (100) 2200

Hand sanitizer (500ml) 4000 @ market square

Stalwert:
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Fighting for me, when they made significant number of graduates to old to compete for entry level jobs. GTFOFH!!! ASUU Shrill.

You're complaining about your age. If not for ASUU, you won't have a certificate.

Stalwert:
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The same people that sent their wards to foreign schools and refuse to be accountable and transparency is here striking in the middle of a serious health emergency. While sensible humans are seeking a cure they are striking for money and rejecting transparency. If you want to oppose Government, start a political party or pressure group stop using government resources to punish the masses.

ASUU is fighting because of people like you, to deliver you from your self imposed chronic ignorance.

When in 1992, FG said they cant revitalized the university system, ASUU gave the ETF proposal now TETfund. It wasn't approved until strike

In 2008, we provided pictorial documentation on state of decay in universities, FG did the NEEDS assessment program. It wasnt approved until after strike.

There is nothing in the University today that is not through strike. The salaries structure of 2009 is what we are still getting today. It doesn't become operational until after strike.

To supervise a PhD or Masters, the 2k/5k allowance approved in 1992 is what we still get and not even paid regularly again.

The students who are in NANS how many times have they demanded for improved facilities like projectors, e-books? The exco of NANS drive around Avenza and Mercedes C class as students!

ASUU is the only union remaining and when it is conquered, that's the end of public universities in Nigeria. The politicians and moneybags have all withdrawn their wards from public universities. They are now less bordered with what's going on in public universities.

ASUU in most cases is forced to go on strike as the last option to get government to be serious with negotiations and agreements.

I wish the youths and right thinking citizens of Nigeria well, they should not take their enemies or oppressors as friends and their friends as enemies, because at the end of the day once the government finished with ASUU, they will bear the brunt most.

Prof. Abdulrazaq Kilani

fernandoc:
When will they pay minimum wage arrears?
Yeeye government
Selfish people.
Almost every one of them is a thief

Na covid-19 go deal with them all

Samakus:
I was told that IPPIS has started paying March salaries. I haven't received yet.

Anyone?

Judiciary don pay since morning sha though they are not civil service. Hope dey.

This one na NASU, no be regular ASUU.

Why can't you people kuku tell the government to be paying you without working.

Lazy sets of people

The Non-academic Staff of Federal Universities, Inter-university Centres, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education has threatened to embark on strike on April 1 if there are shortfalls in the March salaries of their members.

It noted that a seven-day warning strike earlier planned for this month was abandoned due to the closure of all institutions across the country because of COVID-19 outbreak.

The union under the aegis of Non-academic Staff of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) cautioned the Office of Accountant-General of the Federation managing the Integrated Payroll Personnel and Information System (IPPIS) not to make mistake in the March salaries of its members.
According to the union, if the mistakes of shortfalls as reflected in the February salaries of its members are repeated, they will shut down all federal institutions in the country immediately.

General-Secretary of NASU, Peters Adeyemi, stated these in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Adeyemi lamented the deduction of National Housing Fund (NPF) from tertiary institutions’ workers’ salaries in February.

He noted that IPPIS did not take into account the peculiarities of workers in tertiary institutions.

According to him, some NASU members who operate salary accounts with Micro Finance banks were not paid February salaries while some were underpaid.

The statement reads: “We cannot embark on a strike when the institutions are all closed. We cannot also wait for workers not to be paid for three months. That is why if by the end of this month, we are short changed again; we would have no choice other than proceed on a total strike.

“Those managing the Integrated Payroll Personnel and Information System (IPPIS) cannot afford to make mistakes in the March salaries. If the mistakes are made again, we will shut down all federal institutions in the country immediately.

“What we are telling them now is to move quickly and correct the anomalies. They should not allow the February mistake to repeat itself in the March salaries, if not, our reaction will be total.

“With this first experiment, it is clear that the platform designed for us did not take our peculiarities on board. Rather, what was done was to massively cut our members’ salaries and allowances and also deducted the National Housing Fund (NHF), which has not been implemented in our institutions for many years. The reason the tertiary institutions pulled out from NPF was that it was not serving the purpose for which it was established.

“Indeed, some of the conditions that were specified in the scheme included presentation of Certificate of Occupancy before assessing the facility. As a result of that, we protested against our inclusion and government removed from the scheme.

“Because IPPIS has our data, government just went ahead to play around with our salaries taking what they ought not to have taken from salaries and refusing to pay what they ought to have paid to us.”

He noted that allowances captured in the Polytechnic, Universities and Colleges of Education 2009 agreement entered into with the Federal Government were not captured by IPPIS.

Adeyemi noted that peculiarities that ought to have been integrated into IPPIS system included 65 retirement age, sabbatical leave, earned allowances and peculiarity allowances amongst other issues.

He added that more than 200 non-academic members that had their salaries’ account in Micro Finance banks in some institutions such as Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, were not paid their February salaries at all.

Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/shortfalls-in-salaries-nasu-gives-notice-of-strike/

Shortfalls in salaries: NASU gives notice of strike

The Non-academic Staff of Federal Universities, Inter-university Centres, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education has threatened to embark on strike on April 1 if there are shortfalls in the March salaries of their members.

It noted that a seven-day warning strike earlier planned for this month was abandoned due to the closure of all institutions across the country because of COVID-19 outbreak.

The union under the aegis of Non-academic Staff of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) cautioned the Office of Accountant-General of the Federation managing the Integrated Payroll Personnel and Information System (IPPIS) not to make mistake in the March salaries of its members.
According to the union, if the mistakes of shortfalls as reflected in the February salaries of its members are repeated, they will shut down all federal institutions in the country immediately.

General-Secretary of NASU, Peters Adeyemi, stated these in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Adeyemi lamented the deduction of National Housing Fund (NPF) from tertiary institutions’ workers’ salaries in February.

He noted that IPPIS did not take into account the peculiarities of workers in tertiary institutions.

According to him, some NASU members who operate salary accounts with Micro Finance banks were not paid February salaries while some were underpaid.

The statement reads: “We cannot embark on a strike when the institutions are all closed. We cannot also wait for workers not to be paid for three months. That is why if by the end of this month, we are short changed again; we would have no choice other than proceed on a total strike.

“Those managing the Integrated Payroll Personnel and Information System (IPPIS) cannot afford to make mistakes in the March salaries. If the mistakes are made again, we will shut down all federal institutions in the country immediately.

“What we are telling them now is to move quickly and correct the anomalies. They should not allow the February mistake to repeat itself in the March salaries, if not, our reaction will be total.

“With this first experiment, it is clear that the platform designed for us did not take our peculiarities on board. Rather, what was done was to massively cut our members’ salaries and allowances and also deducted the National Housing Fund (NHF), which has not been implemented in our institutions for many years. The reason the tertiary institutions pulled out from NPF was that it was not serving the purpose for which it was established.

“Indeed, some of the conditions that were specified in the scheme included presentation of Certificate of Occupancy before assessing the facility. As a result of that, we protested against our inclusion and government removed from the scheme.

“Because IPPIS has our data, government just went ahead to play around with our salaries taking what they ought not to have taken from salaries and refusing to pay what they ought to have paid to us.”

He noted that allowances captured in the Polytechnic, Universities and Colleges of Education 2009 agreement entered into with the Federal Government were not captured by IPPIS.

Adeyemi noted that peculiarities that ought to have been integrated into IPPIS system included 65 retirement age, sabbatical leave, earned allowances and peculiarity allowances amongst other issues.

He added that more than 200 non-academic members that had their salaries’ account in Micro Finance banks in some institutions such as Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, were not paid their February salaries at all.

Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/shortfalls-in-salaries-nasu-gives-notice-of-strike/

eagleeye2:

At bolded, lol... Some of us are a product of grace of God... Meaning we no get direct link to the Oga at the top, but God used people wey get the direct link.
Thank you so much for your time and help.

Your bursary should be helpful in providing the list of all requirements. Good luck.

Samakus:
Non academic unions are lily livered. ASUU will have declared strike on the eve of the day after salary was paid.

FG defaulted on the agreements you people had and you're still there writing long speech. The only thing FG hear is strike. Nothing else. Imagine the audacity of agreeing with you and doing otherwise. It means that even FG believe that Non academic unions won't do shit

It appears JAC executives are compromised otherwise they should have commenced the process of declaring strike by now and not planning to "go and sleep in OAGF/IPPIS office".

As far I'm concerned, this is medicine after death. ASUU warned but they refused to listen.

UPDATE ON FEBRUARY SALARY

A delegation of CNO led by the President in conjunction with NBTE representative were at the IPPIS office today 11th/03/20 and met with the Director. The delegation were assured that the Office is doing everything possible to ensure that February 2020 salary is paid before this week end. The director also assured that, the salary shall be paid with the new minimum wage and our allowances. That check off dues shall also be deducted and be remitted after the salary is paid. Members are therefore enjoined to be more patient and remain calm as we monitor this development. Thank you for your understanding please

From ASUP National Publicity Secretary

Beebsquare1:


Abi oo am already seeing my period here despite that am a man...... Hunger can make someone get frustrated.

Universities to get their February salary on or before 13th March 2020. The information reaching us from IPPIS Office reveal that paper work and computing of data have been successfully done and salary will be paid by next week through IPPIS inclusive of minimum wage.
Source: IPPIS office.

Greystone:


Well, even CBN as i heard.

But u no say all federal civil servants are equal, but some are more equal than others.

True talk.

Greystone:

Federal salaries are yet to be paid everywhere.

Judiciary don pay sha.