₦airaland Forum

The scamdemic is over.
Period!

Globad:
Obaseki's position is not fun at all.

From one godfather to a pantheon of godfathers.

How is he going to address the HSC certificate issue?

He doesn't need to submit that certificate. His secondary school testimonial /certificate will just suffice.

Rest in peace, dear sister and compatriot.

God bless and keep your children.

Amotolongbo:
Only God understands the pattern of our COVID19 graph and curve

You should understand that the boys are still chopping now.

The graph will start sloping down the day those 'polithiefans' in charge of COVID-19 are defunded.

MasterDreamz:
Ahhh...I'm just tired!

Just what was the use of the national lockdown we had, other countries still benefited from their lockdown.
Cases are just increasing with or without lockdown in Nigeria!

Abia topped yesterday! What happened today? No tests?

I'm losing my mind, I want to go back to school!

Even to get a menial job (my June out-of-school plan) to pass day time is difficult, I gave up today. I pity breadwinners that lost jobs, some families and especially private school teachers!

That is what a nation gets for having a yam head as her president. Nigeria is paying for the ineptitude of Buhari. He is indecisive and inept. Was the lockdown really effective in Nigeria despite the president's pre-recorded 'live broadcast'? Didn't some states do as they wished (including holding Jumaat prayers) during the lockdown?

As we speak now, Buhari is still confused and doesn't know what to do next with KOVIK one nine. He relies on the advice of the Boss Mustapha-led team to know what next to do. Unfortunately, his unimpressive team mates are thinking more about COVID 19 money than the health and economic prospects of Nigerians.

A serious government would have engaged all those youths in commercial farming such that we can have enough food for local consumption and earn some forex through food importation.

This is one of the reasons why Nigeria's disintegration is somehow doubtful
.

If Nigeria must divide, the south east must agree to go with the south south, otherwise the former will find it difficult to exist independently in the true sense.

But will the south south agree to form an alliance with the south east? It's very unrealistic given the fact that the South south is multiethnic and this could be a great disadvantage to them if they form an alliance with the south east which is presumably monoethnic.

NaijaRoyalty:
buhari's failure is in-built.

his failure didn't surprise any sane mind.

Only the deranged and demented could have expected Buhari to perform positively in the first instance.

A man can only give what he has. Buhari is too shallow, hence a poor performance.

akanbiaa:
How much was the pay before IPPIS?

Gross Was The same before IPPIS. The new deduction is NHF. The difference is not significant from the net income before IPPIS.

heykims:
You should also tell us the pay before IPPIS. IPPIS didn't cut down salaries but ensures tax, pension and other deductions are optimally removed.
People in academics have been evading tax for years and IPPIS enrolment will break that.
Mind u, civil servants are generally poorly paid not just professors.
Op is also a liar, there are other allowances attached.

You put up too many lies in your submission.
1. The gross pay before IPPIS is the same as after.
2. The only news deduction is NHF which means a professor would earn about #350k under IPPIS. That's not significantly different from the figure (#340k) under IPPIS.
3. Academics have always paid taxes. So, you think a government employee who is being paid by the same government can evade tax? That sounds low.
4. There are no other allowances attached for Nigerian academics. Universities don't pay allowances like they do in CBN, NNPC, DPR, NCAA, FAAN etc. What should have been their only allowance is EAA which government hardly pays. When they pay them, it could be like one year out of 4 or 5 year allowances.

NB:Always get your facts straight before arguing online.

Globad:
Why not post the figures BEFORE IPPIS as well nah?

Are you saying that deductions like NHF, pension, taxes and dues were not being deducted from lecturers BEFORE IPPIS?

Trust me, the figure before IPPIS wasn't better. The only news deduction after introducing IPPIS is NHF which is just about 10k. Add that to the current net income under IPPIS, that's about #350k.

Now, I put the question to you, is #350k a befitting salary for a professor in Nigeria?

Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Botswana among other African nations pay their professors much higher.

galaxy2020:
..am sure there other allowances not mentioned

My dear, I can authoritatively tell you that there are no other allowances. What should have been the 'other allowances' is the EAA which government reluctantly pays. Government can owe like 5 years of EAA and when they are forced to pay (after series of ASUU strike), they end up for like one year.

Going by level of educational attainment, university lecturers are among the least paid in Nigeria.

I'm happy this was coming from the southeast. When we tell them that zombies and betrayers are in every region and state of Southern Nigeria, they wouldn't believe.

There is a Thief.nubu, an Okorocha, an Uzodinma, an Ogbonnaya Onu, an Amaechi etc in every region of the south.

The earlier the South unites against these fools and stop the rancour between the s/east and s/west, the better for us.

There are alternatives to 'church gathering' as individuals can still meet at family or house fellowship level. But there is no alternative to going to market. People must feed.

Abi Bishop will feed his flock (tens of thousands) with physical food after feeding them with spiritual food? Jesus did it, Bishop should also do it.

Bishop Oyedepo should announce free lunch for all worshippers on Sunday with an additional #5000 pocket money for indingent worshippers every Sunday.

And let no pastor sermonise worshippers to give. The giving should be voluntary and the poor should not be made to feel as if they sinned by not giving or that they are blocking their source of blessings by not paying tithe.

The gospel has gone beyond the elementary doctrines of tithing, giving and prosperity.

Hathor5:
Would he even remember all their names? What is a child worth to him?

Let's start with the wives. Would he remember all their FULL names?

Good one from Oonirisa, though representatives of state governments should have been invited to the palace for the handover, not the Kabiyesi going there for the delivery. Is he going to do tour all the states for the delivery?

Neither Islam nor Christianity is the way to secure eternal peace with God. Someone can practise Christianity for decades without knowing Christ and ultimately ends up in hell. Conversely, someone can know Christ in the last minutes of his life with no church attendance or public recognition as a Christian and yet makes heaven.

The way is JESUS CHRIST: acknowledging that he died for your sin and believing that no one gets to the father besides him.

John 14:6 says, I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the father except through me (Jesus).

Prince081:
Abaribe stands out. His only issue is that he has refused to be part of the rubber stamp, Oyes singers. We need more people with sound minds like him in the senate if this country must make progress.

That's the only voice of the masses still standing in the Senate.

Prior to now, the three major tribes had one representative voice of the masses each in the Senate.

1. Yoruba: Dino Malaye
2. Hausa: Sheu Dani
3. Igbo: Abaribe

Yoruba and Hausa lost their voices to Buhari's rigging machines. Thank God Igbos were still able to retain theirs who now speaks for them and the entire nation.

olaniyilukman:
Governor Makinde himself is a fraudulent individual, can he come to the public and tell the Oyo state people how he generate the data of the poorest of the poor and the vulnerable he is referring to. In all honesty, this man don't deserve the public office he is holding, he play politics alot, incompetency, and the most disgusting, he doesn't prepare for government at all.

Why did you choose to ridicule yourself in the public like this? Only one category of people will applaud you for the trash that you vomited: THE ZOMBIES.

Seyi is the only governor in the southwest. All others are dummies and follow-follow.

The next presidential election in the USA is a walk over for Trump.

1. A large percentage of the Christians are going to vote him because they see Obama and Clinton's party as ANTICHRIST.

2. He thinks America first before when it comes to making decisions. This goes down well with the white Americans who feel that the other party doesn't think the same.

3. Biden is no match for Trump. If the Occultic and all-powerful Clinton couldn't, neither can a weightless Joe Biden.

Sometimes I'm tempted to think that this year's election in the USA is Trump vs Trump.

nuelyoyo:
since everything you said here is legitimate and is within the laws that set up the universities, why can't the lecturers cite them to defend themselves. Since it's their official leave they used, why can't they provide thier BVN and earn thier 'legitimate' salaries. The lecturers never talk wetin dey hungry dem.

ASUU talks but who cares to listen? Some of their chairmen have been on radio and TVs to clarify these issues.

On the issue of BVN: it's a ploy by the government to register ASUU in IPPIS without their consent.. That's one of the requirements for IPPIS registration.

If FG was being sincere, they could just verify (through CBN) if any Federal University lecturer earns double salary illegitimately without asking everyone to submit BVN. Erring lecturers can thus be disciplined..

This is why opposition is needed in every democracy.

I have the feeling that some other states in the southwest and the south generally also received this spoilt rice but for the sake of party faithfulness or political correctness, many of our Southern governors chose to be dumb.

I duff my cap for you, Egbon Seyi Makinde.

Of a truth, 'ajisebi Oyo la nri, Oyo kii se bi Baba enikankan'

GreenKalada:
It's very wrong because we have graduates who could have occupied those jobs

I'm amazed at the level of reasoning of some people who claim to be educated but yet not informed.

If you see any lecturer collecting more than one salary, s/he does so for two reasons which are obtainable anywhere in the world.

1. He's on sabbatical leave (a leave meant to be enjoyed once in 7 years)
2. He's utilising his accumulated leave (which means that he uses his annual leave which was due him over the years elsewhere)

Aside from these two reasons, no lecturer earns double salary anywhere. The only one that's close to it and which many people mistake for full-time appointment is what is called ADJUNCT LECTURING. This is a situation whereby another university hires a lecturer from another university to teach one or two courses in a semseter because there's no expert to teach that course or because the university can't afford to employ someone on full-time basis to teach the course (which is the case in many private universities). Adjunct lecturers are not usually paid until the end of the semester and their pay for the period (3 or 4 months) in such instance may not even be up to one month full salary.

NOTE: In most cases, no junior lecturer enjoys either of the two leave stated above and neither are they usually considered for adjunct lectureship.

Let me also seize this opportunity to mention that a university professor earns just about #400k+ in Nigeria while a fresh PhD holder earns less than (#150k). I put this question to reasonable Nigerians: How do you expect Nigerian university lecturers to live a decent life that's commensurate with their status and give their best in the discharge of their duties?

I understand that a fresh graduate in the Nigerian Communication Commission earns more than 400k (what a university professor earns). Ditto for many other MDAs, e.g. Nigerian Customs, CBN, NNPC.

I think ASUU on the other hand needs to get professional journalists who can put all these facts in the public domain, because government has used propaganda to badly damage the image of ASUU such that educated Nigerians think the same way as uneducated ones, anytime ASUU is in the news.

What a painful story! May God console the bereaved, especially the young kids.

Not every medical doctor has the calling. A good number of them have no business in the medical practice. They found themselves there because of money, prestige and/or family pressure to produce a medical doctor.

madegreatbygrace:
It seems some don’t understand the message jmoore is passing across. He is not against giving to God to advance the kingdom, he is against tithing being taught in churches as a law.

Giving should be taught in churches as a principle and not as a law.

Is it wrong to pay tithe? Many have asked that question and my reply has always been; is it wrong to give?

The major difference is MOTIVE. Under the new covenant, we don’t give because we want to be blessed. We give because we are already blessed in Christ Jesus. We don’t give out of obligation but out of love. To think God blesses you because you pay tithe is missing the point big time. It’s like saying God contradicts Himself in Matthew 5:45 ;

“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”
~‭‭Matthew‬ ‭5:45‬ ‭KJV‬‬

So if God blesses unbelievers who don’t pay tithe, how much more His sons. The New Testament encourages us to give cheerfully and generously, and without compulsion.

God bless you for this beautiful response.

As a believer and lover of Christ, I have 'unsubscribed' from the law of tithing.

Now, I know I need to give because of my love for Christ and burden for furtherance of the gospel. In a bid to do this, my giving could be less than or more than 10%, it depends on my financial ability per time.

I Corinthians 16:2 urges Christians to give in a way that's commensurate with their income. The reverse is the case in Nigeria as some churches collect as much as 30% of income from some members in the name of tithes, Sunday worship offering, Sunday school offerings, monthly thanksgiving offering, birthday offering, mid-week offerings, departmental offerings, house fellowship offerings etc. At the end, most members are rendered impoverished and unable to live a decent life or attend to their personal needs.

Giving is part of a Christian lifestyle but it should be out of love and not out of compulsion.

koffsman:
Anyone that follows FFK will end up in pit the guy is an hypocrite in short a cry baby, he will reign Insult on them and when something happens he will call them friend only hypocrite act this way what of people he has led to hate and dislike the man what will their thinking be? Some are still insulting despite the fact that he is dead already shame on him because to him everything is just a game

You are right, Femi is a hypocrite.

He's also a known critic of Tinubu and he criticised him over his stancecomment on Funke Fasoranti's death, when he (Tinubu) said where are the cows if the Fulani herdsmen were her killers.

Eventually, they both met at the service of songs for Funke and Mr sharp mouth couldn't confront Tinubu the same way he did and always does online. Instead, he was all smiles and happy for meeting Tinubu again just like a kid is happy seeing his father return from a long journey.

I challenged him for his hypocrisy on twitter, and I'm sure you can guess what his action would be. He blocked me straight away.

Femi Fani Kayode is a hypocrite. I won't be surprised if he goes back to APC tomorrow, afterall he was once in their fold.

Has ASUU suspended its strike action?

That's the second phase of 'COVID-19' lockdown for Nigerian university students.

The dumb government that we have in Abuja doesn't know that this is the best time to resolve the crisis so that universities can be fully re-opened immediately after the lockdown.

ASUU leadership and government can continue with their negotiations or meetings the same way the presidential task force on covid-19 is meeting daily.

But everyone in this government is dumb and bereft of ideas just because their head (buhari) is brain-dead.

But for the partisan politics being played by Oluwo of Iwo, he should by now have been dethroned.

But APC enthroned him, and they wish to keep him on that ancient throne for as long as he does their bidding. They care less if the tout of a king continues to drag our culture and tradition in the mud.

Better captioned as 'Hausa man' or 'Mallam' washes hands......

Only God knows how drunk Lord Luggard was while he appended his signature on that amalgamation deal.

I wish you what you wish Southern Kaduna people.