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SultanOfAbia:
Jesus was not crucified, He escaped via the help of Pontus Pilate who Jesus healed his son of epilepsy
At night Jesus escaped prison via the help of a roman guard sent by Pontus pilate .
Pontus adviced Jesus to change his name and go to far country where he lived a secret life with Mary Magdalene and had 5 kids with her.

The Roman Empire during Constantine's reign called all bishops to council Nicaea to re write the story of Jesus to make it look more interesting.
So they added the story of crucifixion, ressurection to make it look epic and removed any trace of the later low key life of Jesus and his relationship with Mary Magdalene and their 5 kids..
Also women were among the disciples of Jesus
The Bishops removed all the names of female disciples and made it look like it was just 12 men
Mary and Joseph had normal sex and Jesus was born. Again This Bishops were given almighty privilege to re write history by Roman empire. So the immaculate conception was added to make it look grander. Jesus was a healer well known for travelling to Egypt,India to further his knowledge of healing from the gurus before he came back to Jerusalem an advanced healer but his tricks soon got him into public eye and the Pharisees

So you typed all these trash? Na wah o.

ReneeNuttall:
In as much as I support this peaceful protest, they should also pls pity those doing interstate travels.Imagin someone coming from Lagos,osun,Ibadan etc trapped in traffic for hours.

Senseless move. They ve been noticed!

Electronic media and www has come to stay.

bodysoul:
On a lighter mood..
Is there any part of the scriptures that confirmed to us that Jesus was not fasting at that time?

And besides, He is the Son of God, He has the power to do, He doesn't need to pray yet He does anyway. The Son of God only needed to speak and it shall be so...

So. Jesus needed not fasting nor prayer, He simply exercised his authority.
When you as a child of God know what power you have, greater works shall you do.

Bible says. IF YE HAVE FAITH, not if ye fast and pray..you will tell mountain to shift...and it will obey you

Before Jesus was tempted by Devil didn't He fast? in Mathew 4? I wonder how people are responding to such an OP.

lilwetdick:
but how does these scheme works, if the house ownership is all in the so called landlord name, will efcc not trace the landlord too

Efcc arent learners shebi

Don't think they can disturb the landlord if he is clean?

I would advice you give the scripture stipulated tithe of 10% to church and 5% (or what you settle for) to pastor as pastor seed as the scripture admonished us to communicate all good things to our teachers.

I suspect the N1.8b rent part is a laundering network on it's own. Imagine a third yahoo guys who specializes in posing as a landlord and all mompha and co have to do is to rent the outrageous apartment with him, when they get busted and start recovering the loot from them, the third yahoo guy or inflated property landlord. can serve a safe money heaven for them.

solite3:
Great brother! What they dont understand is that tithing is no longer just about the law in the new testament but a principle and act of Thanksgiving.
If you dont tithe we do not condemn you but please do not discourage those who wants to tithe and if the holy spirit reveal to you the need to tithe please do.
Whatever you do, do it to the Lord Jesus.

Tithing was in existence before the law. Jesus endorsed it.

ASUU should be Willing to do this and fund themselves if they must demand full autonomy.
CC: lalasticlala

femi4:
For the first time in many years, ASUU is fighting for the wrong reasons

No. They have always fought for wrong reasons.

goshen26:
Ok....

They should monitor the BVN of those lecturers.

I use to have a lecturer, who lectures in three institution I.e one federal and two private, apart from the fact that he also run a radio program.

He won't come to class, he will send material upon material and u won't know the one to read.

And if he !manage to come to lecture he will use 1:30mins to do motivation speaking, use 30 mins to take his ICT course.

C++ na cram I use pass am then....thank God for outside world where we learn little programming now

Lol... they want FG to guaranty them their illegal allowances they gave themselves under the abused autonomy system. God catch them. Them think say Buhari na Jonathan.

omohlexy:
If you are autonomous FUND Yourselves. You cant be dependants and yet lawless. Your source says they want to know who they are paying and your are here talking autonomy

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If they are truly autonomous let them fund themselves. Harvard renders account back to donors because they receive money from donors around. Our own universities want to receive money and turn to lawlessness. Employer has say in every employees issur and there is no way an employee will use autonomy to dictate to employers.

Geesarki:
Everyone wants to talk. For how long have we been discussing with the office of the accountant general of the federation. We are autonomous entity. We refused to be dragged into the conventional civil service.

Even Harvard with all her reputation and billions of dollars still render account of expenses to donors. Now tell me why ASUU shouldn't support IPPIS when it is all about transparency. Does autonomy put FG below ASUU?

And that makes omockery witches & wizard spokesperson or PRO

gobuchinny:
Thank you. Insult me as you will. You will remember me later in your life.Your papa is deceiving you with long life abi. Most of your members die untimely and suddenly . Alot of them die from sickness deceiving themselves that God has healed them whenever you shamman prays for them and extorts them..

Worshippers of devils claiming worshippers of God. Lazy christain that wont study and know God but assumes Godliness is gain

Time will tell ..

Watch this post. That your criminal short theif will die a disgraceful death because he has brought confusion and desecrated the Holy place with his idols. He claims he is God ba? Just watch.

Jayjay, your stupidity cuts across user accounts.

Elvis4real28:

14. Dangote is producing its own electricity to power the plant and by so doing is saving
75% costs. Dangote produces electricity at a rate that is significantly cheaper than the
Federal Government. Dangote’s cost is $400,000/MW, while Federal Government is
$2,000,000/MW

The reason we are backwards. We use money for new car to buy spare tyre or side mirrow.

bizme:
This is not an epistle, you err there. This is free education for you.
There is no point matching your rant and ignorance here, thou hater. Patience comes at no cost. We should wait and see if the government will have its way... or if indeed the lecturers will keep their tradition.

Dreamer...

bizme:
Making vague, generalized claims that emphasize a stereotype won't help anyone.
I dare you to tell the whole world where that is happening.

We should stop building a general narrative from isolated cases. The so-called lower employees in universities are some of the most up-and-doing association. No one can so "eat" their salary with a protest. If an employee is on suspension or punishment of any sort, does that translate to someone eating the salary?

Let me say this: most lecturers really want to be on IPPIS because of different deductions from their salaries by the school administration. But they are not willing to sacrifice the peculiarities of their employment (Sabbatical, adjunctship, external examination allowances) for that.

This government means no good for anyone.
It is a government that believes in robbing hardworking and well-meaning Nigerians of their legitimately earned money.
They have increased VAT.
They have introduced satanic POS and bank payment charges.
They want to introduce toll.
They now want to cut university workers' hard earned wages... and you guys are clapping and goading them on.
Curiously, most of our politicians go home with more than 14 million every month. No one is looking into this. Buhari at the expense of our pulse jets around the world. No one looks into this to cut cost.
They find it difficult to pay ordinary 30,000 naira for hard working Nigerians, while our overfed politicians smile home with insane millions every month.
Yet, many of you come to clap for this rudderless government for introducing policies that seek to rob the working class and pay the slumbering public officers.

This fight with ASUU the Federal Government can not win. You guys should realize the calibre of people that compose ASUU. ASUU has survived many governments and their ridiculous policies. They will survive this as well. If you want you can quote me on this.

You can rant all you want man, as I speak, there are security men on FG payroll in federal schools earning less than N30k minimum wage. The schools intercept the pay on their behalf and give them part of it instead of the actual pay. Plus there is no limit as to how a payroll app/system can be structured.
Also don't forget there is no where employees dictate how they should be paid. They only demand entitlements and not dictate pay to their employer. Their rejection of the payroll is in fact a pointer to the fact they are earning beyond their entitlements.
The only reasonable thing to hear from the lecturers at this point is the demand for their full entitlements from FG to be captured on IPPIS and not the rejection of IPPIS.

Your epistle is as useless as the ASUU effort at fighting their employers.

bizme:
Many Nigerians don't read. Op posted something and included two links to understand the position of the writer. Instead of reading what's written in the links many of you i.dio.ts are running your mouth here.

The lecturers that are holding multiple fulltime jobs are not ghosts, the Federal government should sanction them appropriately. But this is HIGHLY unlikely. The academic community in Nigeria is a really small world, and there is no way you will be working fulltime in two places at once without one of the universities you are working with being complicit. The Federal Government is simply resorting to cheap and idiotic blackmail to force lecturers to be on IPPIS. It is surprising that the Federal Government is not addressing the damning allegations of corruption in the IPPIS scheme but instead is trying to pull the wool over our eyes. If we are not very careful this IPPIS scheme is a ploy to breed a new set of corrupt officers at the expense of the civil servants.

Some of the i.diot.ic individuals are attacking lecturers for being paid during Sabbatical year and yet holding employment in other institutions you are s.impletons. Instead of asking for clarification you immediately took that as an evidence of corruption in academic institutions. Funny, many of you are on the queue to join same institutions, yet you are here running your mouth over what you do not understand.

Employment during Sabbatical is a standard practice in academia.
Working as adjunct lecturer on the approval of the appropriate University authority is a standard practice.

Ask for clarifications, instead of preaching your ignorance to the world.

Fact: IPPIS is a government policy. The government should address its present dubious practices with the scheme before trying to bring more people in.

Even though I don't believe all you wrote, what do you think should be done for the lower employees in the universities whose salary are being 'eaten' by the autonomous admin.

favouryemmy:
Yes, it's true. Nigerian lecturers do not hold multiple full time lecturing jobs. It's a cheap blackmail by the FG to force the university staff to join IPPIS, which is against the extant laws that established the universities. A Lecturer is only allowed to do adjunct or visiting lecturing jobs, which are part time jobs. Before universities employ lecturers, they ensure that such persons do not hold any other full-time job before the appointment letters are issued. This is because they know that it's against the law to hold multiple full time jobs at same time when working in the public service.

Every country is guided by laws and the rule of law must be upheld by any government if not anarchy could set in. Universities do not just come into existence, every university is established only after the law establishing it has been made. Therefore universities have laws that are backing them as passed by the national assembly. In addition, there is an act of the national assembly that is dedicated to universities generally in the country.

Now, the law of universities all over the world and Nigeria establishes that universities must have governing councils, whose members are appointed by the visitor (the president, for federal universities and ; the governor for the state). These governing councils are by law vested with the responsibility of managing the university in terms of its employment, finances, etc. Therefore, university workers are responsible to their respective governing councils, which employed them. Remember also that they are employed by the visitor to manage the universities and they need not be redundant according to the law.

The law also states that any government policy that is contrary to the law should never supercede law. That means that the law is sacrosanct on such matters. The IPPIS will erroneously remove the power to manage the finances and employment of staff from the governing councils and this is against the law. The law of the land no matter whose ox is gored must supercede any contrary policy as is the case with the IPPIS. The government of the land must uphold the law as they swore to do.

If we must move forward as a country, we must learn to respect our laws else we would be inviting more anarchy in the country. I am typing this in order to educate the readers and to ensure that we do not fall for the cheap blackmail by the FG. Several MDAs that joined the IPPIS are currently regretting their decisions, due to its many disadvantages. Please check the links below.

Even of you were right about no lecturer holding multiple jobs which I know cannot be true, what about casual staffs whose salary are being eaten by the autonomous university administrators? Security men, IT support, MIS staff? Let's be realistic, Your employer decides how he wants to pay you and there is no where in the world where employees dictates to employers on how to be paid.

Buhari is already romancing Saudi and Russia so US won't move him. Trump can shout shithole all he wants.

mumuism caused this. let them come and start selling Gala in traffic again.

gobuchinny:
If only you will tell yourself the truth for these things I'm saying are not strange to you. But of course you love it when your papa tells you your breakthrough is around d corner. That God will open the windows of heaven. Miracle marriage, miracle contract, promotions . Carnal minded christains whose god is mammoth .

Continue, Yeshua will meet all of you building empires on earth in the name of the gospel.

Mark my words. God will fight for his own . It will begin in your temple of mammoth at canaanland.

Clowns on the pulpit.

Haha ha.. J****J** so na you?
Mammoth ko, gigantically mamon ni....

gobuchinny:
You must have been so brainwashed that you cant see the light. All the gifts he gets is in whose name? What business is he doing again? Isnt he propagating the name of Christ? So everything he gets is either as an offering or tithe. You must be greatly deceived to say he doesnt touch the tithe or offering. So who does? Do you not discern that CU and all other franchises are from the offerings and tithes? Now he can afford not to touch it any more because he has other side businesses which originated from the givings of the commonwealth.(tithe, offerings)

So for you church is by size and number abi? Carnal baby christain. Your papa is blind leading the blind. Continue to count numbers while your church members are heading to hell chasing after wealth and are one of the most corrupt folks after redeem members. With all the churches in Nigeria where r we in holiness? If you want to find Yahoo boys come to winners, armed robbers nko, winners, your members are all scheming and scamming themselves to outshine themselves to share testimony of how God blessed them on the altar . For you are a worshipper of man not God. Your god is your belly .

Continue. You will stand alone when you die. Your Papa wont stand with you

Stop the multi layered ignorance and assumptions.

Lol...God delivered you from persecution and so you think u r above apostle Paul who suffered. Lol.

How can he determine the experience of others from his pulpit.

gobuchinny:
No it's not tithes nor offerings. It's the money your papa saved after working countless years in the federal government.

Brain washed clown.

There is clearly a provision for material things towards prophets and to best of my knowledge, Oyedepo gets gift in billions of Naira easily. Even fellow men of God do give him seeds in hundreds of millions. And I mean men of God from outside Living Faith Church AKA Winners Chapel lntl.
I don't think that man has ever touched a kobo from offering or tithes. Heard he once got a oil well as gift. That's serious o.

Stop equating every small road side church you know to bigger ones you don't know. That man is not after money again in his life.

Even if you plant money and it grows, I doubt 1.5 million will grow to become 1 billion. What did he plant? I hope he can back it up with Tax slips and invoices.

sinkhole:
[b]WE STILL INSIST THAT IPPIS LACKS THE FLEXIBILITY TO ADDRESS THE PECULIARITIES IN THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

1. There is no clear and convincing evidence that IPPIS can capture renumeration of staff on sabbstical, external exerminers, external assessors, and Earned Academic Allowance. The IPPIS does not and cannot cater for the constant movement of staff in the cases of visiting, adjunt, and part-tme.

2. In practice, IPPIS cannot predict and address the promotion of academics especially Associate Professors and Professors, which is subject to external assessment.

3. IPPIS will constitute an impediment in the way of the ability of Universities to recruit staff for new programmes as well as replace same; newly employed staff cannot be paid their salaries until they are enrolled into IPPIS data base.

4. The IPPIS recognizes 60 years and 65 years as against 70 years retirement age of a Professor.

5. On the issues of lecturers on sabbatical leave, IPPIS recognizes, For a maximum period of one year only but applicable to every
Seven years, as against five years.

6. The Law establishing each University is an Act of the National Assembly; hence, it cannot be upturned by an Executive action or operations of the Office of the Accountant General of the federation.

The office of AGF should note that our members are not answerable to his office but to their respective Governing Councils and that no University in the world operates IPPIS related system. Consequently, AGF should as a matter of urgency seek to uncover the Massive corruption in his office since the introduction of IPPIS.

In conclusion, the Abuja zone of ASUU wishes to reaffirm its objection to the idea of IPPIS since it undermines university Autonomy. And, since IPPIS has no place in the Act, it is illegal and unconstitutional.

[/b]

Prof. Theophilus Lagi
Zonal Coordinator Abuja.

Virtually all the issues raised here are simple thing that can be corrected in few weeks at most. Let ASUU embrace IPPIS and let FG cut wastages with which it can help meet ASUU's financial demands.

porka:
They are not talking about free education now.

They are talking of how to include earned income due to lecturers in a government payroll system called IPPIS. This system is a centralized automated payroll platform running on parameters of income earned.

The lecturers have issues with it because their peculiarity has not been considered. For instance, some lecturers go to other schools to teach on Sabbatical, as external examiners, part-time lecturers and so on. They have to be paid. Their payment currently is captured on the host university payment system.

The new system will not capture their work because the host university's authority to pay would have been transferred/ceded to the automated IPPIS sytem.

Now, government is not denying these earned income, they fully acknowledge them and the rights of the lecturers to earn them. But they are saying that IPPIS is so inflexible that those income would have to be paid through some other means.

Why can't they adjust IPPIS? If what they want to do is eliminate waste why introduce another means outside IPPIS to pay earned allowances? Is that not creating another avenue for waste and confusion?

Additionally, by the law of the Nigerian government itself, professors' retirement age is 70 years. But on IPPIS, retirement is pegged at 60 years of age or 35 years in service as applicable to the core civil service of which lecturing is not part. The lecturers are asking government to recognize that too as it concerns them. They have offered to help with the necessary adaptation on the system.

Do you get it up to that point?

Now, are you saying Harvard and MIT and Princeton universities' lecturers don't get paid? Or are you saying the lecturers don't have input in the reforms in those universities?

University in reality are not business centres. If they were, you would have seen Harvard and MIT listed on the New York Stock Exchange or Oxford and Cambridge on London Stock Exchange.

Much of the funding of Harvard is from generous endowments from its very successful alumni pool. For a school established in 1636 it is no surprise that it will outperform Nigerian schools in fund raising.'

Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are public universities which are still subsidized by the UK government. And they have complete autonomy - from government political influence etcetera. Much of their funding come from research grants.

Using tuition fee as a weeding tool to control access to education because of socalled run away population is defeatist. Such a strategy is flawed and potend danger for a country whose only successful products apart from oil and gas are the skilled human capital.

Going by trend and years of migrantion pattern, it is safe to say that more than 60% Nigerian migrants are university educated which enables them to quickly assimilate into their host countries and start earning income. Their annual remittances back into country is one the financial pillars still preventing the country from total collapse when all else is failing fiscally.

Nigeria is not the only country with big youth population desiring to have university education. India is successfully turning that particular challenge into a big advantage for their country.

Is there any peculiarity about university lecturers that cannot be fixed in the payroll. it boils down to addition of few tables and functions in the payroll app.
Let ASUU embrace this move. Don't forget the casual FG workers like security men/women, MIS/IT, and librarians whose salary are being partly 'eaten' by the admin of our autonomous universities.

Also the cases of lecturers maintaining multiple full-time jobs under one employer - Federal Government, is real and needs to be checked. Even business organisations sometimes do engage staff from one department or branch in another department and branch but what they do differently is how they compensate their staffs by capturing extra work/task reward in their payroll. They don't employ you in multiple department or branches like university lecturers are trying to force on the FG here. The solution will revolve around making the payroll system/softwares more robust to accommodate the peculiarities of university lecturers. It should capture their extra efforts and reward it accordingly but never should two federal unis maintain two different employment profile for a single head. It is wrong.
This calls into question our practice of bad record keeping. It also calls for a central regulatory system that ensures a single lecturer isn't joggling multiple full-time jobs between different employer(state or federal govt) and thereby shortchanging the employers.

Funaki:
the guy had no faith to be healed. He was only expecting money, he was not expecting miracle.

Acts 3 [2] And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; [3] Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. [4] And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. [5] And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. [6] Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

He was expecting to receive something but we cannot rule out healing being that something.

gobuchinny:
You this guy again. Pls how can you compare d president of a nation which has d legal right to tax the people for his luxury to a man like you and me, a fellow brethren who tax the people of Elohim for his personal gains and luxury, r our brains on vacation? Even God told the Israelites the manner of kings when they wanted one
He said the King will take your vines and your sons as servants. Cant we think? He robs his fellow brethren claiming to be special like Christ whereas we are all brethren even Christ calls us His brethren. He steals from the commonwealth of beleivers and donates a fraction to road construction, same roads that lead to his business that will make the sheaple drive smoothly to donate more money.

We r cursed in this nation. That's y things will get worse. Nigeria will be worse mark my word because God Is angry with this wicked and perverse nation.

Believers dont study scriptures to know d times and seasons but are lovers of wealth, material things which this false prophets propagate. You think the kingdom of Yeshua is in meat and drink? Cars and houses? Private jets and estates? Hmmm.

I will rejoice over the demise of this criminal on pulpit. This man that has taken the place of God in your life and lives of many. It will be sooner than we all think. Mark this words

u need to stop talking what u know not. who told u tithes and offerings are part of what the church spends on road or schools? Your problem is too much bitterness mixed with assumptions.