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roman1755:
That someone said they sent the salary to CBN since Friday (which is public holiday)should tell you that the info is not reliable. All these are mere permutations

Exactly. Mere speculation. Giving people fake hope.

roman1755:
Friday was public holiday, remember?

And yesterday?

Rahym001:
yes at least 24hris

So, isn't from Friday till now up to 24hours yet?
They are just fooling us. Nothing more.

Beress:
NYSC alert received....



So let's hope for Tomorrow or Friday

Friday public holiday fa

Beress:
I'm invoking the spirit of alert

Hehehehe. OK, it good.

Beress:
Alert! Alert!! Alert!!!

Which MDA, please?

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roman1755:
The thread has suddenly gone COLD. Most people here have migrated to Federal tertiary institutions staff on Telegram, hence no more comments.

Yes, you are right. I am also on the platform, one of the Admins even. But I can tell you that regarding minimum wage arrears, not serious update yet. We are working round the clock to get reasonable and authentic information about that, but nothing yet.
But let's not loose our hope yet!

cerpvad:
It seems the arrears have entered lockdown. Since heavy taxes and other deductions have swallowed the differences in the former salary and the new minimum wage, I am afraid there might no longer be any arrears left. Even if there are any arrears left, such might be very infinitesimal in amount.

No matter what amount it is, let them pay us, it's ours. We need it.

Crusader1:
Update on Arrears
It has just been confirmed that the IPPIS payroll unit have completed their work on the arrears and will be forwarded to CBN by tomorrow morning for payment.
I shall keep you updated tomorrow.
Thank you and remain blessed

Any latest information today about payment of minimum wage arrears?

taibat61:
Humblezick

Please I kept clicking on the link but it's not opening. Please any Admin should add me on 08072778891. Thanks

Adoroko10000:
let's organise a watsap group

Someone should create the group and share the link here so that people will start joining immediately

freemanbubble:
If that is true
Then am beginning to think those level 1 to 6 might not get any deductions

Alert recieved. 2k deduction made. Level 6 Step 2. UNIJos

[quote author=roman1755 post=88067654]bro, this is a SATIRE. You ou should be able to comprehend the message the writer is trying to relay to his audience[/quojte]

I had wanted to relate it to satir, but since I did not know much about the prof, I saw him more on the side of government. That's where I became confused.

I read this news story on The Nation and I became confused on what is happening.
It's today's edition of The Nation.


Let’s starve lecturers to death!
by Alao Abiodun 18 hours ago




By Alade Fawole
Let me state it very plainly: I subscribe to President Muhammadu Buhari’s government’s policy that Nigerian university scholars need to be starved to death! I am so strongly persuaded, and I urge you to be patient as I explain.

First of all, and unambiguously, this nation does not need universities! What does a rent-collecting state that depends wholly on proceeds of oil and gas being exploited by fraudulent and thieving foreign oil corporations need universities for? What functions will they perform in a nation that does not desire development? Frankly, they are totally irrelevant, if you ask me. Unfortunately, we have deluded ourselves and established several universities with public funds, that should ordinarily have ended up in the bank accounts of our leaders, and now we are saddled with them as a national headache. Any wonder why governments have always turned a deaf ear to the irritating demands of the university lecturers?


Since the government may not be able to totally erase these inconvenient institutions we call universities by stroke of the pen, the easiest way to destroy them is to begin by slowly and incrementally starving the lecturers to death. By this the government would succeed in ridding itself of this singularly irritating sector, so that it can focus on other more pressing issues. And there would also be more money for our sybaritic elites to spend. I encourage President Buhari to help Nigeria get rid of its scholars who are nothing but a pain in the neck. They are arrogant, pushy, opinionated and make demands on the government as if they and their universities are the only responsibility the government has. I mean, why should we continue to tolerate their monotonous agitation for adequate funding of the universities? When will they ever get it into their thick skulls that funding the universities will mean less money to satisfy the hedonistic lifestyles of elected and appointed government officials and their families? One would expect that with all their researches and intellectual exertions, they would have realized that this nation does not need them.

The main preoccupation of the ruling class elites is to plunder the national patrimony. And whenever they want their usually disastrous offspring to attend universities, they send them abroad, or to private universities at home to be awarded unearned degrees. I say ‘unearned degrees’ not necessarily because their children are unwilling to learn, although it is true that many are not, but because in these poorly staffed and ill-equipped, profit-oriented business enterprises called private universities, degrees can actually be purchased without much academic exertion. For example, the Department of Chemistry of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, alone parades more professors than the total number in some private universities. Even though many of these private universities which the children of the elites attend, have very few students, they also comparatively award the highest number of first class honours per capita. For them, awarding first class honours is a marketing strategy.

Even though private universities outnumber public (federal and state) universities, yet they collectively, according to the NUC Executive Secretary Professor Abubakar Rasheed, have less than six percent of the overall undergraduate population of about two million as of 2018. And their share is dwindling as avenues for official corruption are closing against treasury looters. Again, according to the Executive Secretary, the intake into the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in one year is more than the numbers that all the private universities combined enrolled in four years! The implication is that these same poorly funded public universities, whose lecturers the government would rather starve to death over a disagreement, have more 90 percent of the entire undergraduate student population!

If only Nigerians have been paying attention to these disturbing statistics, they would have come to the reality that it is the future of their own children that the ruling class is destroying by not funding the universities and by starving their lecturers. Regrettably, Nigerians always wrongly blame the lecturers and uncritically support whatever strong-arm tactics the government employs against them. Many do so out of sheer inferiority complex, believing that university academics are too arrogant and pushy, thus deserving to be pulled down from their high horses. Others are simply ignorant about what universities are, equating them with secondary schools, and thus failing to see what makes lecturers different from other teachers. And, of course, there are the members of the ruling class who love to hold the nation in darkness and ignorance while their mindless accumulation of illicit wealth from the national patrimony goes on unhindered.

Pardon the digression. Now back to the issue of starvation at hand. Salaries of public university lecturers have been punitively stopped for two months now, and the nation’s business continues as usual. Salaries have been stopped by the federal government allegedly because of the lecturers’ refusal to be forcefully migrated unto a payment platform that has been convincingly proved to be highly defective, that violates university autonomy (as enacted and signed into law) and provisions of subsisting negotiated agreements which the government has bluntly refused to implement, among others. Sadly, not even the parents and guardians whose offspring and wards would suffer the adverse consequences of this policy seem perturbed by it. At least no protest from any quarters. All is well and good, after all it is only lecturers. They can be dispensed with anyway.

Punitive salary stoppage and other strong-arm methods have been the veritable means of addressing industrial disputes and disagreements since the early 1970s. The starvation that comes with it is the potent means for Nigerian governments, military and civilian alike, to deal particularly with protesting university academics. Whenever government policies and actions push the university teachers to strike as the only remaining option, governments characteristically revert to this default setting: salary stoppage! I can personally remember my salary having been stopped no fewer than 13 times, sometimes up to six months at a time, in the 37 years that I have been a university teacher. In case you are wondering why government officials are never mindful of how counterproductive this method is, it is because the nation does not need universities. Unfortunately, though, the same nation will turn around to blame the universities for not contributing to national development, and parents will expect starved and starving teachers who cannot feed their own families to work magic, while their family members are advised to wait till heaven for their rewards.

My honest and heartfelt advice to the federal government on the current face-off with the universities: let us totally ignore the lecturers and whatever fate may befall their families even as the raging coronavirus pandemic continue to wreak havoc on the nation. Nigeria will be better off if we starve to death the nuisance called lecturers even if the coronavirus pandemic may spare many of them. It is the quickest and permanent way to rid this nation of the headache that universities and lecturers have become. And we don’t have to look for fancy explanation for the mass extermination of irritating academics since the coronavirus pandemic is available to be blamed. This is the best time to execute the final solution, one Hitler himself would be immensely proud of.

Prof Fawole writes from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Hello everyone,
What is the update today? Any latest information today about payment?
Update please.

COVID-19: Ensure workers get salaries, Buhari tells finance minister https://tribuneonlineng.com/covid-19-ensure-workers-get-salaries-buhari-tells-finance-minister/

See the rubbish they met and talked. This directive ought to have come since before now.
I weep for this stupid leaders.

chrisifeanyi:
*JustIn:* For those who were not paid February Salary, please look for a better way to survive as we may not be paid this month again. Its not a false alarm. The above statement will help you look sideways from the salary until it comes. So that if it doesn't come, you won't hang yourself. All the forms you ran around through out last two weeks and last week to submit and resubmit to Bursary have been rejected intermittently by IPPIS directorate, Abuja for lacking valuable columns of information. I reliably gathered from an IPPIS staff that it was just last night (11pm precisely) that the forms were finally submitted, and the submissions are presently awaiting rejection or confirmation. Hence, if these forms are rejected again today, then no need expecting March alert. So, I encourage those of us affected to pray hard and look outside the box for survival. Daalunurinne!

What a wicked people.

ashafson:
At least lets get a little entertainment

This one no be entertainment o. It's rather in a form of mockery fa

onyxo76:
I that kind of post would have cheered us if we were already paid and just trying to encourage ourselves but not the right time at all...

Honestly, even jokes have appropriate time.

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Thank you for paying attention!.....I'm in my house come and beat me

Such people like you need not to belong here, sincerely.

taibat61:
I raised d issue dt hope d ASUU warning strike b4 fG order her lockdown won't affect payment from Ippis for d month of march

It's well

[quote author=Rahym001 post=88012379]other MDAs don receive since last week, some got on Monday.

Educational Institutions don enter one chance for this Govt[/quote

It's well.

Singleatom:
Any technologist in the house? Any news about payment of hazard and call duty allowances with our salary?

This salary issue, is it only in the institutions that we are facing it or other MDAs? Because a journalist with FRCN after I questioned him on why no reporter is carry out report on the wickedness of government about salaries payment, he swiftly told me that salaries were paid since last week and that most of them have even finish spending theirs.
Are we the only ones facing this issue?
If yes, why is government punishing us in the educational institutions?

edogu:
Here is the reply I got from IPPIS concerning the delay of March salary.

I wrote them too a mail since yesterday and till now they haven't reply me.

LudaChriz:
And today is gone no news. I need to send some money to my brother whose wife is pregnant at this critical time but no way.


Buhari may it never be well with you and all your households including all your ministers and advisers!

It's only God who moved me withheld same prayer for these people.

amanda2013:
The whole thing tire me .

This government is terrible. Why are these people heartless and devilish?

otokx:
Is it SSANU?

SSANU are only threatening strike, should IPPIS make unneccesary deductions.

Makemercy:
The lockdown starts today. Scanning through the exemption list, IPPIS office Abuja is not among those rendering essential services. Hmmm! What is more essential at this time? Let's see how far by the end of today!

Am not being negative here, but I doubt if they will pay today. Annoying part is, government is silent, no singing briefing for the labour force.

Samakus:
Pardon me o but I feel that workers shouldn't be wailing like this just yet. My institution used to pay us on the last day of the month during the time of GIFMIS.

Besides, e never too tey when dem pay February salary o. Myown still remain small probably because I'm single and my babe don travel because of coro

Let's wait till after tomorrow, then we can now wail

Have you forgotten what happen before February salaries? Besides, some of us have wives and children at home. Only of you have heard of market prices of stuff you won't say this.

k2kay:
The problem is our govt does not listen at all...this is the height of irresponsibility. Asking people to stay at home without paying them The time is 4.49 still no salary...buhari's address should have directed the payment of all salaries before lockdown but what do i know.

I did not listen to him, rather read his speech. While I was reading through, I first scanned through, looking for where he stated that salaries be paid to worker with immediate ineffective, but unfortunately I saw nothing. Buhary has no good intention for workers. Sorry to say this, but this is a reality.