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Under the President Goodluck administration, two payment platforms (GIFMIS and IPPIS) were created for payment of salaries. They were designed to suit the uniqueness and need of the institution, of which they were designed for. Unfortunately, the under the guise of cutting down cost the current administration scrapped the GIFMIS platform. This has in so many ways disrupted the academic system.

[quote author=soliufiljannah post=112360244][/quote]Congratulations! What do consider when picking your names?

Nigeria jaga jaga.

President Biden is asking Congress for $33bn (£27bn) in military, economic and humanitarian assistance to support Ukraine - although he insisted that the US was not "attacking Russia".

Mr Biden said it was "critical" for US lawmakers to approve the deal, which he said would help Ukraine defend itself.

The proposal includes more than $20bn in military aid, $8.5bn in economic aid and $3bn in humanitarian aid.

"It's not cheap," Mr Biden said on Thursday.

"But caving to aggression is going to be more costly if we allow it to happen."

Although the US has already announced help for Ukraine, the proposals are a significant ramping up of aid.

President Biden said US military support to Ukraine has so far amounted to 10 anti-tank weapons for every tank that Russia has deployed to Ukraine.

But despite his strong rhetoric, he said the US was not attacking Russia. "We are helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression," he insisted.

On Thursday, a spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry said Western military support for Ukraine threatens "the security of the continent".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61260511

That money is too small.

iCauseTrouble:
I am happy to inform you that this sale has dropped.
I may not reveal the domain name because it is a Squadhelp name and I flouted Squadhelp rule by listing on afternic.
Name got accepted on SH for $2299 but got sold on afternic at a higher price of $2999.
Holdtime is 2 years.

This is awesome. Congratulations!

Connected1:
Drop the name of the Federal University.

I am a student of a Federal University too, I won't insult you because you are my elder and I was trained well.

Lecturers live above their means and you would even wonder if they receive same pay as Chevron workers, imagine people agitating for a better salary when they don't come to class and not even impact knowledge on student.

I can't DM you, I don't want to be insulted more than I have received here.

FUNAI

malikombi:
All the schools are in holiday presently. I've tried almost every school I knew before they went on break. No information regarding Coping strategy yet

Be patient, school will soon reopen. Just submitted an application to one school close to me. I'm going through the same rough patches like. Do you attend union Congress. It's by attending such congresses that you know if there’s coping strategy. It's well my bro. God definitely will make way for you. You can as well organise lessons for students or place advert with your number on it. Hopefully, you might find a family that wants you to tutor their kids. Gracia.

Voldoz:
Firstly, FG is a disgrace to this country as a whole nation not because of ASUU but because of everything going on in this country.

As for ASUU their low salaries is a fault from their organization not FG cause while in school some lecturers usually boost of being well paid and our handout money is nothing to them, some even see their selves as gods to students. I would agree that some are less paid but look into it you will find out that some are being over paid while those upcoming once are the ones suffering. ASUU strike is for their selfish reasons not for students, and people should stop insisting they are not paying them because recently the federal government threatened to stop paying them when they on strike signifying they are receiving their pays when they are still on strike, so who is fooling who?

FG for me is a failure they failed the country and keeps failing the country, but ASUU are not trust worthy to me, I don't just feel their intentions are 100% for the students.

My own opinion though.

They were not paid their salaries except for non teaching staff.

malikombi:
I'm presently 32 years old and was employed in one of the public universities in northern Nigeria. I started in late 2018.
I had a challenge that made me collect a loan with unity bank last year and I'm still paying them gradually.
Salaries was suspended due to ASUU strike and this made life so difficult and even hard to feed. My PhD admission in lautech is in Jeopardy. I believe so much in this forum and I knew I could get help if I cry out. I needed help to keep my family afloat and also pursue this PhD program while this ASUU struggle lasted.
I have always been good to my students and I hope and pray I get financial assistance here.
I had to borrow from migo to pay for this PhD form with the hope that salary will come but unfortunately, it hasn't.
Any/every evidence to support my claim is available on request. Thank you.
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While waiting for the strike to be called off, why don't you find a nearby school where you can teach. Don't your union have a coping strategy?

Delta State Government has urged the Leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU) to use Universities in the state as blueprint in correcting deficiency of Universities under its purview.

Speaking on Sunday in Asaba, Commissioner of Higher Education, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare described the allegations made by Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, National President of ASUU, who is a Deltan, as fake and unpatriotic.

He said that the anger of the leadership of ASUU degenerated from the refusal of the state-owned universities to join the recent strike action.

According to Muoboghare, ” Governor Okowa has made it clear that we had no issue with ASUU and that caused a big attack where he made some statement we need to correct. None of this statement is true”.

Though he noted that the union has the right to go on strike action, he maintained that the state would not be dragged to fight a war that does not affect its workers.

Hence, he charged the leadership of the union to take the blueprint on how the state pays it’s staff while bargaining with the Federal Government.

While disregarding claims that there is no pension scheme in Delta, he said, ” That is a lie from the pit of hell. There is a pension scheme in Delta State University, Abraka. What is correct is that the Academic Staff of Delta State University do not have the ASUU pension company as their preferred company.

“They staff in Delta State University, Abraka are in the old pension scheme but ASUU expects members of the union to be part of it’s pension company but they will not see us there because we are not on the Contributory Pension scheme as we speak.

There is no person who has retired Delta State that is not on pension. For him to say we do not have a pension scheme is to say the least uncharitable”.

He described the statement that majority of structure in Delsu universities were funded by TETFUND, saying that for him to say that, is laughable.

” When a man stays away for home for too long he will start asking about dead people. The National President of ASUU has not been home in Delta, so he does not know what is happening in Delta”

He is using the quality he has in Umudike, where he lectures to qualify for the Universities in Delta State.

“They assume what is happening to them is what is happening in Delta State” he asserted.

He also mentioned that leadership of ASUU towed the part of error by saying that the three newly established universities in the state were unnecessary.

” For someone who has unpatriotically said this, it was worth noting that the first visitors we had in University of Delta, Agbor were members of ASUU National who came to initiate lecturers to the union and collect union dues from staffs in the University.

“If they should not have existed that should not have come to start collecting dues from them. We have no apologies for that, if the need arises, we would establish more universities.

He also described claims by ASUU leadership concerning the poor treatment of staffs working on the as laughable.

“I am a staff of Delsu, he is in a Federal University in Umudike where a Professor at the bar earns N550,000 while a Professor at bar in Delsu earns N633, 000 a month. I do not know how else suffering can be defined, it is obvious that it is the man earning N550, 000 is suffering”.

He noted that the lecturers in Delta State University have been earning Academic Allowance for the 15 years, saying that all these attack on the Delta State Universities is borne out of jealousy.

“Try and use Delsu as a model while negotiating with the Federal Government for the Federal Universities. There is need to come and learn from us. Even the new universities in Delta are paying Professors higher than the University of Ibadan, Ahmadu Bello University amongst others” he declared.

https://independent.ng/delta-blasts-ASUU-national-chair-over-false-claims-urges-union-to-use-universities-in-delta-as-benchmark-for-negotiation/

Odidigboigbo:
He wasn't a senator but former House of Rep member.

Ok

I thought dogs don't go back to their vomit?

I thought he was once a senator? Nigeria politicians no dey tire.

Is he sitting at home in Finland?

Is that night gown?

MadamVanessa:



The site is undergoing upgrade as stated, and you Said it has been hacked.

Do you expect them to tell you that. More than two hours have gone since I made this post yet the information displayed keep stating that they will be back in 15 mins.

For the past two hours, the lindaikeji's blog has not been going through. Could it be as a result technical issue or hacked by hackers?

Me: AA, O+
Wife: AA, O+

bammo:
No one is hungry "to the point of death," we just need to stop thinking with our stomachs for a minute..
They'll give you money that can barely last you a week and then proceed to increase your suffering for years.

Like I pointed earlier, it is possible in an ideal society. What you pointed out can only be possible for the informed mind.

Kyiv, Ukraine – “Russia will come here. There will be plenty of money. Everything will be in order!”

That’s what Valerii, a minibus driver, told me eight years ago in Donetsk, the administrative capital of the eponymous region in southeastern Ukraine.

It was shortly before the May 11, 2014 “referendum” organised by pro-Russia separatists in Donetsk and the neighbouring, smaller region of Luhansk.

Known collectively as “Donbas”, the regions broke away from the central government in Kyiv – and were recognised by Moscow only this year.

Valerii, bearishly burly and tall, was genuinely kind-hearted and sweet. But he truly hated Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, who had left his seat and Ukraine weeks earlier after months-long protests in Kyiv.

Yanukovich came to power in 2010 and brought a coterie of his cronies to Kyiv.

His lesser minions wrestled control of hundreds of businesses in Donetsk – including two that belonged to Valerii.

First, they took over his furniture store, and then he had to give away his poultry farm, where he fed chickens with corn to “make their skin look yellow and easy to sell”, he recalled with pride.

He spent his last savings on a Mercedes minibus, and a television crew with me as a producer hired him to drive us around Donetsk in April 2014. We called him Val.

Val’s hatred of Yanukovich, who went down in history as Ukraine’s most pro-Russian ruler, didn’t translate into anything negative towards Moscow or Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Val wholeheartedly believed that Putin would annex Donbas the way he’d annexed Crimea just weeks earlier, and that the corruption and economic degradation that dawned on Donbas in the 1990s would be gone for good.

Val remembered the good old days, when Donbas was hailed as a “Soviet workers’ paradise”, and its blue-collar residents, especially coal miners and steelworkers, enjoyed hefty salaries and plenty of perks.

They had free healthcare, education and dirt-cheap vacations to Crimea or even the “socialist camp,” or Moscow-friendly nations of Eastern Europe – Bulgaria or Poland.

Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Donbas from all over the USSR – and mostly switched to Russian.

The 1991 Soviet collapse was painful and disorienting to the USSR’s 287 million of its denizens, but it hit Donbas especially hard.

Economic ties with now-independent Russia began to sever, most of the benefits were gone, and once-affluent miners and steelworkers woke up to a new reality – “predator capitalism” with galloping inflation, organised crime, corruption and a total makeover of state ideology.

Ukraine began forging a new national identity – predictably based on the lionising of ethnic Ukrainian statesmen, artists and war heroes. Some of these heroes fought against Soviet Moscow during World War II – and occasionally collaborated with Nazi Germans.

Many Soviet-educated Ukrainians, who grew up feeling proud of the USSR’s role in defeating Adolf Hitler, were indignant – especially in Donbas.

Meanwhile, locals associated a painful transition to capitalism with democratic reforms – and longed for a strong-armed, patriarchal ruler who would restore law and order and bring back the Soviet-era perks.

Many in the region – just like in Crimea – felt neglected, forgotten and offended. Most of the region’s assets were privatised and went to a handful of oligarchs, who preferred not to remember about free scholarships and trips to Crimea for their workers.

Yanukovich’s ascension to the presidency was seen as revenge, a triumph, a way to stick it to those slickers in Kyiv. And his shameful flight was a major letdown.

When the residents of Donetsk took to the polling stations on May 11 to vote for their region’s “independence” from Russia, most looked sincerely elated. Val was one of them.

They walked down the tidy streets of Donetsk, past new office centres, green parks and a bronze statue of the Beatles next to a British flag.

The city was proudly Anglophile – it had been founded in 1869 by a Welshman named John Hughes, who was invited there by Russian tsar Alexander III to open a steel plant and a coal mine. As for Luhansk, it was founded in 1795 by another Brit, Charles Gascogne, who started a foundry.

Thousands also rallied throughout Donetsk, usually starting their marches under the giant statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin on the main square.

They carried portraits of Lenin and his successor Josef Stalin, and chanted anti-Ukrainian slogans and obscenities – along with the Soviet anthem.

Fighting erupted in and around Donetsk, and separatists aided by thousands of Russian “volunteers” began to force out demoralised and poorly armed Ukrainian servicemen.

Shelling began, leaving gaping holes in apartment buildings and killing dozens. The separatists and Kyiv accused each other of deliberately targeting civilians.

Separatists restored the Stalinist constitution that prescribed the death penalty for a number of crimes, and people started to disappear into “basements”, or makeshift prisons, where they were tortured and occasionally killed.

Val’s mood started to change.

He saw many of his idealist friends joining separatist squads – but fighting next to drunks and ex-cons, who started “expropriating” posh cars and looting the houses and apartments of pro-Ukrainian activists or businessmen.

One night in May, several armed separatists ordered Val out of his minibus – and drove away in it. He got it back only thanks to his separatist friend.

My team went back to Donetsk hours after the Malaysian MH17 passenger plane crashed with 298 people on board on July 17, 2014; investigators say a Russian-made missile fired from a part of eastern Ukraine held by the rebels. Much of the debris was found in the village of Hrabove, in the Donetsk region.

Val drove us every day to the largest fragment of the fuselage that was laying in a field with ripening wheat.

Each time, we drove by roadblocks filled with armed separatists. Once, they tried to “expropriate” our Kevlar bulletproof vests that looked elegant and light compared with their heavy, badly fitting flak jackets.

One morning, the road we took bisected a burning wheat field that smelled like burning flesh.

Val’s minibus whizzed by a woman in her 30s and her little daughter, three or four years old, who were pushing a stroller with a suitcase. They were walking towards us, we were running late for a live broadcast – and didn’t stop to give them a lift.

I still feel guilty about leaving them there.

Donetsk changed.

Instead of throngs of people enjoying an ice cream or strolling to work, it turned into an empty shell of its former self, where rare, frightened passersby were seen walking and looking around with suspicion.

Living standards plummeted, and many average residents had to rely on humanitarian aid from Ukraine or Russia. Makeshift coal mines provided jobs, but poor safety measures killed many.

When I asked Val about his pro-Russian stance, he said that he’d already sent his wife and daughter to Kyiv – and would pack up and leave once he was done with us.
“To hell with Putin!” he said and added a long expletive.

Soon, the separatists banned Western journalists, but people fleeing the regime eagerly talked about their atrocities.

One of them was Afanasy, the archbishop of Luhansk, who told me how they sentenced him to death for his pro-Ukrainian stance.

They blindfolded the full-bearded cleric and put him up against a wall on a hot day in June 2014. He heard a shot – but the bullet didn’t hit him. They removed the blindfold and told him to leave town in his rundown Lada.

But the separatists didn’t last long.

They quickly turned Donbas into a dozen feuding fiefs, clashing over a factory or a coal mine. Several “generations” of separatist leaders died violent deaths or fled to Russia.

One of the “longest-serving” leaders was Alexander Zakharchenko, a former poultry seller and police academy dropout nicknamed “Daddy”.

He headed Donetsk for almost four years until an explosive hidden in the lamp of the Separ (Separatist) restaurant in central Donetsk killed him and his bodyguard, on August 31, 2018.

He was succeeded by Denis Pushilin, a 40-year-old former employee of a confectionery company who ran a Ponzi scheme in Donetsk.

On February 21, Pushilin signed an agreement on “friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance” with Russia after Moscow recognised Donetsk’s and Luhansk’s “independence”.

Three days later, Russia invaded Ukraine.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/22/reporters-notebook-how-donbas-evolved-under-separatists

boladale123:
There was an agreement that they both signed to, which states that Fed will spend 200billi every year for 7yrs or so.
Jonah paid the first year but bubu had failed to pay any since he came in.

Actually, it's meant to be every five years. The last time such money was released was under President Goodluck like you stated. Another point is the issue of welfare. The last welfare package for university staff was 10 years ago. If FG can take care of the welfare and the 200billion for infrastructure, I strongly believe ASUU could suspend their strike while they (FG and ASUU) work out the payment platform - UTAS.

If you are very hungry ( to the point of death), would you go for food or motivational talk? In ideal society what you said should be the ideal thing but Nigeria is not an ideal society the last I checked.

With the high rate of poverty and unemployment everywhere that to me will be very difficult.

akpunda86:
Hi all .I have a helper staying with us 15years,she no dey even see me nor recognise me as the head of the house expect my wife.
The thing dey piss me off.
1) I was collecting soup from the pot took meat,kai this girl reported me to my wife.I warned her .
2) This girl in serving me food just drop food on table and go sometimes put water sometimes not.
3)All my movement this girl tell my wife,
The thing don do me everything got a limit,sent her going today,all this helpers believe one can't do without them,I told my wife Na she cause am cos gave the girl 2much soft hand.She have reached her village .
Helper never insult me like dat bf

Until you stop behaving like a houseboý and start acting like the owner of the house, the insult will continue.

Gpexchange:
I tried it tho and it took everything else but still left the country.....asked support they said it's permanent

Except I'm not doing the right thing or I'm not on the right page. Here is a domain I listed on Sedo. No sign of country of origin.

Reno D chemical reactor.

Gpexchange:
Anyway to do this in bulk?....

I don't know. I've not given it try.