₦airaland Forum

RIP to him.

IamPlato:
I Am Satisfied With The Spread Of This Virus because It Shared Itself Evenly... Both The Poor And Rich Catches it, it Doesnt Matter How Much You Have In Your Account.



That Being Said, i Am Yet To See Who Has The Virus.

There Is A Simple Solution To Coronavirus.

The virus no dey show for face. The symptoms are similar to malaria. Quite a number of people have been infected and recovered without knowing. Even the severe cases may have been misdiagnosed as malaria. IT also acts as a catalyst leading to death of those with underlying conditions with the underlying conditions considered to be the cause of death.

When there's no thorough screening at the airports what do you expect? When less that 2% of the population wear facemasks and adhere to non-pharmaceutical guidelines what do you expect? The truth is that as far as we are not screening travellers thoroughly they will bring the virus into the country. Those infected by travellers will also spread the virus due to the general complacency of the entire population. This is both science and common sense. Since most infected persons are asymptomatic, we feel the virus is not here. The unfortunate less than 1% of the population that eventually dies from the disease makes it difficult for the population to believe the virus truly exists in the country. The reason for all these conspiracy theories.

When government has not fulfilled its own part of the agreements? This government lacks credibility. What's the essence of telling lies that everyone would discover to be untrue?

IAMPEDRO:
My joy is that Nigerians are aware of the lies already.

Its actually true. At least I know of one. Its unfortunate his actions and inactions are partly responsible for the prolonged strike which is rather unfortunate.

His twin brother was my classmate at FUTO. He did all his SIWES programmes abroad. Both parents are great scholars. Congratulations to him and the entire family.

Rapmoney:
I understand you but you know most companies in Nigeria do not give 2.2 graduates the chance to even attend interviews. Their applications are not considered.

Half-truth. While some companies don't give 2.2 graduates a chance, many others still employ 2.2 graduates. The graduate should apply to companies or institutions that employ 2.2 graduates and also upgrade with professional qualifications, relevant skills and postgraduate programs. A young graduate should not despise the days of small beginnings. With perseverance, focus, and God's grace he will eventually succeed. The beginning may truly be tough. Weeping endures for a night but joy comes in the morning.

Hope its not their own form of protest?. How can they concede 4 goals just like that?

Sorry oooooo!!!!! You got more than you bargained for.

bskyb:
Thank you for taking your time to respond in a responsible, intelligent manner.

My counter response is as follows:

I am aware of the ASUU's stance on university autonomy, which is great. But, changing the platform of payment of salaries (which is what FG is proposing) does not stop that. It is like an employer stating that he will now pay using Oracle backed platform rather than Microsoft. Now, imagine the employee getting angry because of that.

Yes, lecturers have peculiarities (research allowance, sabbatical, visiting, earned allowance etc) and they are entitled to it. However, it has been shown that IPPIS can cater for those as well. I do not want to disclose where I work or what I do. But, I know quite well that lecturers who registered on IPPIS are being paid these allowances without any issues.
Also, health workers have peculiarities, all of which are captured o. This same IPPIS. They go on sabbatical, visiting, collect call duty allows, are members of co-op societies etc.

Bro. I am a well published researcher, and I know what the costs are like. You were even conservative to an extent for the high impact foreign journals.
As I wrote earlier, they deserve the allowances they get and more. The issue I raised is that these allowances can be catered for on IPPIS as it is being done for other workers with such peculiarities.

As per visiting scholars from foreign universities etc. It can be taken care of.
Healthworkers , particularly doctors go to other hospitals for these things and are captured. Same way, people come from abroad and are taken care of.

IPPIS is a platform, just like UTAS is a platform. Both can be adjusted to fit what you want. After all, they were both made by humans and as the saying goes (na the person wet make pencil also make the eraser).

I had really thought that ASUU will use this opportunity to ask for salary increment and other allowances, rather than fighting over the platform of payment.

As per people taking up visiting. I wish it was only 1 or 2 visits that people take up per month. There are people who visit 4-5 places. I am aware of a department with 6 academic staffs on paper, but only 2 are on ground, all others visit from another place. Meanwhile, this same department has post-grad people looking for jobs. Those 4 people are occupying their spaces.

I look forward to reading your response.

Thanks for your intelligent response as well. The relationship between ASUU and Government has not been smooth because of the inability of government to honour several agreements in the past. The truth is that Nigerians generally not just ASUU take government's promise with a grain of salt. The last endSARS protest is a typical example. University Autonomy recognises the Governing Council as the employer and each university is supposed to have its own council. If the government is truly sincere, they should modify the platform for the few lecturers that enrolled in IPPIS to capture these peculiarities. The payslip of lecturers on IPPIS does not reflect any modifications to capture these peculiarities. Some lecturers who have been on IPPIS for almost a year are seriously regretting it as everything is muddled up and these allowances are taxed heavily. If the government is not interested in UTAS, why did they give ASUU the go-ahead to develop the software if they knew they had no plans to accept it. Consider the time and resources spent.
The bureaucracy in the civil service can actually kill academics. Due to regulations on TSA, it took me 1 year to buy a software through the Central Bank from abroad for a research work whose timeline was one year. A lecturer was supposed to receive a travel grant sponsored by a foreign government. The money routed through CBN because of TSA the money never came throughout the period of the training abroad between May and July last year. This frustrated the purpose of the training. As I type, he has not received the balance as he was told they had to reprocess the documents due to the inferno at CBN during the lockdown. These are some of the terrible experiences of many lecturers.

While I can't defend lecturers that take up too many visiting positions, the blame lies with the government. ASUU has advised the government to stop the proliferation of universities. We do not have the manpower to support this flagrant proliferation. The present government while in opposition criticised the Jonathan administration for establishing 8 new Federal Universities. Now they have done worse establishing transport university, army university, etc for political reasons instead of expanding facilities in current university. So where will the manpower come from? Some of the new universities especially some private universities are purely glorified secondary schools. Hope things will not get so bad very soon like in one of our neighbouring countries where they have universities that have only one building with Vice chancellors without a PhD.

I also think the salaries should be increased. The salaries of lecturers are extremely poor and not competitive with other African countries.

Even Nebuchadnezzar in ancient times knew how to take care of scholars while in the 21st century we have a government that neither cares for education nor the welfare of scholars.

Decimus:
Why are you stressing yourself so much defending a group of people that collect research grants and use it to marry?

These are spurious allegations. There's a saying that in every 12 there's a Judas. If there are a few persons in a profession that do what is wrong it is not a justification for blackmailing everyone in that profession. That is most unreasonable.

somehow:
since the universities have laws governing them, let them pay themselves using internally generated funds they dont remit anywhere

That is only possible if the government allows universities to charge tuition. The same Government insists that tuition is free but has refused to fund education. Primary and secondary school fees are higher than the fees paid at Federal Universities.

capitalzero:
Are health workers not on ippis? Are they not getting allowances as well? Allowances of visiting lecturers are not the problem. In hospital, there are also visiting consultants on ippis. They are not complaining
Let me tell you why ASUU is against ippis.
1. Most lecturers especially old professors are using falsified age. It is university that is covering them. I have my facts
2. Earn allowance has been politicised between ASUU and nasu. Most universities refuse to employ young lecturers because of earn allowance. Nasu is also getting earn allowance which also wrong.
3. Working in multiple universities. The rule is 1 full time 1 visiting appointment either in private or public institution. Many lecturers are working in multiple institutions. Government wants to have database of all lecturers and where they are working

Let me respond to each of your allegations:
1. Do you have enough evidence? This is a spurious allegation that holds no water. The system has checks and balances. The human resources of each University has records of birth certificates /age declaration which must be submitted before a person is appointed a lecturer. Retirement date of each lecturer is also indicated in the annual appraisal forms which must match with the employment records.
2. Vacant academic positions are collated from departments and advertised by universities yearly. Sometimes those vacancies are not filled because the applicants may not meet the specific requirements. Minimum requirements for lecturing is a PhD or its equivalent. In the interim, fellowship is acceptable for medical specialties. Plus specific work experience and publications.
3. I'm not aware of lecturers working as full-time staff in multiple Federal Universities. A lecturer should have only one full-time appointment and can be a visiting lecturer based on need. No lecturer can work in unilag and UI or OAU as full time it is just not possible. Its cheap blackmail of the government. They should provide evidence and make scape goats of anyone culpable. A visiting lecturer is only paid about 30% of what a full-time lecturer gets.

Goddyj:
And up till now, nobody that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody that I know has been tested.
It's ok. God pass them.

This your argument no longer holds water.
I know more than 4 or 5 people that died from the disease. A little over 1,000 deaths out of 200 million people is insignificant and you may or may not know any of them. On obituaries, the specific cause of death is not indicated.

bskyb:
I would like to k ow exactly why ASUU is against IPPIS.
This same platform is being used to pay almost every other FG employee. It is flexible enough to accommodate the peculiarities of lecturers. It is being used in hospitals, esp teaching hospitals where many of the doctors there are lecturers and also visit other hospitals.

If you state the reasons, I will respond

It negates the law governing Universities. The principle of autonomy which took ASUU many years of strike . It does not capture the peculiarities of lecturers. Lecturers have specific allowances that support publishing in journals and attending conferences. A lecturer is expected not only to teach but do research which should be published in journals and presented at conferences. The cost of publishing in local journals range between 35 and 100k. While open access international journals cost between $1,000 and $2,500. This he does using his lean salary. No lecturer is promoted without having a good number of publications in local and international journals. The mantra in academics is "publish or perish".

Those attributing lecturers' rejection of IPPIS to their visiting status to other universities are not aware that the lecturers that serve as visiting lecturers are mostly visiting lecturers to private and state universities which are NOT on IPPIS. So it is impossible for IPPIS to detect it.

Also, IPPIS does not take into consideration other peculiarities like visiting lecturers from foreign universities whose services are required to support some departments that need their expertise. Universities all over the world don't operate in isolation.

150 out of 200 million is extremely an infinitesimal number. While I can't defend whatever figures generated by NCDC we shouldn't be too quick to discard the figures. Most of you want to see dead bodies from COVID on the streets before you believe its real. The fact is that most cases are asymptomatic and fatalities are extremely low.

COVID-19 is real. Fatalities in Nigeria is less than 0.1%. Many Nigerians including those suffering from hypertension and diabetes have a strong immunity to fight COVID-19. It doesn't kill Nigerians like ebola or Lassa fever. However, its seems from observation that age is the greatest risk factor for COVID-19 in Nigeria. The elderly those above 70 years are only about 5% of our population. We've lost a number of people above 70 years this year who possibly may have died from COVID-19 complications. Most don't do COVID-19 tests.. Autopsy is a taboo in Nigeria. We take everything that happens as the act of God or 'enemies from the village'.

Unfortunate

nairavsdollars:
Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos 

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday said there was nothing wrong in the appointment of Lauretta Onochie, one of President  Muhammadu Buhari's media aides, as a national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The appointment has generated widespread criticisms from Nigerians who believed that it is partisan and unconstitutional.

However, speaking in a chat with Daily Independent, Yekini Nabena, Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC said the party will not succumb to the cheap blackmail orchestrated by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Nabena who gave instances of PDP men who are currently in INEC said what is good for the PDP is also good for the APC.

According to him the current INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu is also a card carrying member of PDP.

He said "We are very comfortable with her appointment. The INEC Commissioner in Cross River, Mike Igini, is he not a PDP man? The INEC spokesman, is he not a PDP man? So, what are they talking about?" 

"All these cheap blackmail by PDP is not going to work. As a party, we are comfortable with the appointment".

"Even the current INEC chairman was a PDP man. Was he not recruited from Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund)? Let us face the facts and stop the cheap blackmail being sponsored by the PDP. We are not going to succumb to their cheap blackmail. That is the reality" he said .

https://www.independent.ng/apc-defends-onochies-appointment-says-it-wont-succumb-to-pdps-blackmail/

Your evil crafty devices will be disappointed.

The sample size is too small to give reliable results.

Lagos is not on the list. Perhaps no test conducted. Wait for today or tomorrow and see if won't go back to top 3.

Now I know that this man deserves an honorary PhD in bigotry

The cases in Lagos are gradually beginning to increase. Other states are not doing any serious testing. The thing about this virus is that it mostly kills old people so when they die we think its because of diseases of old age not knowing they still would have lived for 10 years longer. 1 in 5 cases of people 65 years and above who got infected from COVID-19 in Nigeria have died from the disease. Also those suffering from
severe hypertension, diabetes,heart diseases, cancer whose health conditions have seriosly deteriorated also died from COVID19. So don't be deceived COVID-19 is real. The numbers from NCDC are actually lower than the actual figures. I can't defend them on corruption allegations but COVID19 is in the country. Most people don't go to hospital when they are sick and we hardly ever do autopsy to determine the cause of death as we are are prone to making assumptions. So stay safe not just for yourself but for your old loved ones or very sick loved ones who can still live for another 10 years.

Righteous Supreme Hope

tonyson010:
Going to School is good for self development. But if it doesn't give you earning immediately, learn something that will. You can use Ur education to compliment it.

the sad truth is that people go to school just to have good certificate and NOTHING else.

Very true.
Many students are just interested in acquiring certificates without learning. You give students assignments to help them acquire some marketable skills but unfortunately they give it out on contract and eventually learn nothing. They contract out their final year projects and think they've succeeded in deceiving their lecturers.

Village Headmaster
Chief Eleyinmi, Counsellor Balogun, Amebo, Okoro,
Kabiyesi, Headmaster, Boniface

New Masquerade:
Gringory, Ovuloria, Clarus, Chief Jegede Shokoya, Apena, Nathy etc

Second Chance
Madam Kofo, Okonkwo, Anuka etc

Third Eye
Uzzi, Olu Jacobs acted as detective forgotten the name then

Ripples,
Koko close,
and lots more

Testing has drastically reduced. COVID-19 is still rampaging. We lost someone with COVID-like symptoms a couple of days ago. Although death rate is very low (less than 1% )you shouldn't take things for granted. Nigerians hardly go to hospital for minor ailments and its difficult to get accurate records. Only the discerning will realise that we have lost more people this year compared to previous years.
Since death rate from COVID is less than 1%, if you are not someone that pays attention to minute details you won't discover the pattern. So stay safe and take personal responsibility.

saaphiere:
YOUR FATHER IS NOT LESS THAN FEMI OTEDOLA BECAUSE HE DID NOT BUY YOU A FERRARI.

Mr. Reno Omokri took to his IG page to react to Otedola's Ferrari gifts to his daughter.
In a video made by Reno, he advises Nigerians not to allowed Mr. Femi Otedola’s Ferrari gifts to his daughters diminish their fathers.
He said he was disappointed by a lot of Nigerian celebrities and other Nigerians who took to the social media to belittle their fathers and some saying that their kids would never go through what they went or are going through.
Watch the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4FBOVyv7Yg


lalasticlala

Very true. Many youths who do not respect their parents at home call big men their fathers. People that don't know them. People they cannot meet one on one due to high security restrictions around them.

Nigeria is truly a poor country bedeviled with poor leadership. Also, concerted efforts are needed at wealth creation. Government should also come up with clear policies to mitigate the population growth.