was just curious to know who's the first because I'm surprised Nigeria is not the first

My two key assignments in Nsukka, Enugu state on Wednesday as significant as they were, got consumed in my chance but emotional encounter with an old friend and University mate now a Professor in the institution.

My mission in Nsukka was for two important events. First, was to visit and assess a dilapidated health center, and second, to campaign for one of the federal legislators, Hon Dennis Agbo, contesting to represent Udenu/Igbo Eze North Federal Constituency in the forthcoming bye-election on Saturday. I believe this legislator is committed to the good of his people. But while in Nsukka, I met one of those brilliant fellows I knew while I was a student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in the 80s.

The fellow graduated with a first class and became a lecturer in the institution. When I later visited the University as the then Governor of Anambra State, he proudly announced to me that he was already a professor and I rejoiced with him.

I met him again in Nsukka on Wednesday, but our exchange of pleasantries resulted in very pathetic tales about his general welfare. I noticed in his look and mien that all his happiness of being a professor had vanished.

He began his story by telling me that he felt like he wasted all his years lecturing. He dragged his pitiful story into his current remuneration as a professor. According to him, his salary as of January 31, 2010, which is 14 years ago remains the same to date, having reached the pinnacle of his career. The only significant difference is that while the money was worth something in 2010, today the same amount is worth nothing.

The Professor recalled how he was able to buy a Toyota Corolla from his savings, something that is not possible again today. I asked for his salary today, he said about N400,000. He broke my heart when he requested that I put in words for him so that Hon Dennis Agbo can appoint him as Special Adviser when he wins.

The reason for the bizarre request that shocked me was that he would earn more and receive more perks as an SA than as a Professor. Touched by this and applying my finance background I decided to do some comparative analysis.

By January 31, 2010, the salary of a Nigerian University Professor was about N400,000. With the then prevalent exchange rate of N150.10 per dollar, the salary amounted to about $2665.

Fourteen years later, on January 31, 2024, the salary of a University Professor remains about N400,000. With the prevailing exchange rate of N1,510 per dollar, the same salary now amounts to about $265.

Today, the same Toyota Corolla costs about N52 million which is more than 10 years of his salary without expenditure, to be able to buy one, after having attained the highest point one can achieve in academia.

Considering the critical role education plays in the development of a nation, and the low human development index, HDI, we are currently at, we require as many hands and a committed workforce as we can get in that sector.

But can we get such, when the earnings of our professors are going backward relatively? Sadly, we are in the same country where the government can use an amount enough to buy 3 Toyota Corollas, to buy personal SUVs for the legislators, whose annual earnings amount to several times that of the university professor and can now afford to pay the professor more than he can earn from lecturing in a premier university in Nigeria.

How does one then remain earnestly committed to contributing to the critical development of the nation?

My campaign, therefore, is to dismantle this criminality and create a functional society where people's talents, efforts and sacrifices will match up with their opportunities in life.

We can reverse this negative trend and build a fairer society. A new and different nation is POssible.

#PeterObi 🇳🇬

Tinubu has been approving Money since he took over nothing has been disbursed

Ironically when one see this kind of writings one will think that he or she is just a kid.
If check very well this person is an adult fool.
Imagine puting republican in this same sentence with Yoruba were you have Igbo doesn't correlate.

Truth is that if he comes out today what's next ?
For me if Igbo or IPOB really want free then he's at the right place. He's paying the price for freedom

Bliss62:



Cheating by lecturers earning multiple salaries from multiple university , earning as visiting lecturer, earn from private schools, earn for supervising Masters Students


Atleast they can stop their useless ASUU strike

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Stop fooling yourself
Ignorant is not excuse
No lecturer is receiving multiple salaries, even with IPPIS lecturer still go on visiting and they get paid.
Tell your govt to stop creating new universities rather they should sustain and improve the existing ones.
Thank you

Bear parlour analysis Reno will never reply the ones that can match him intellectually

Omoawoke2:


I don’t know which place in west Africa has more sophisticated road network than Lagos state

I think you problem is tribalism. You have problem with only southwest. And yet you all run to southwest

See a video on the beauty of Ibadan.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIi_OrV_16A

Someone gave his own opinion or could do is start accusing him of tribalism
Somehow

As a former SAGE member I'm so proud of them it's not to come this top I wish them all at SAGE world cup

buygala:


1.7m

V6, No fault, 1st body in and out... Sure title vehicle to be confirmed even inside Police HQ or Army barracks

Not distress or japa sales pls.. So make nobody talk price wey go make me abuse am.. I own another car, and i am at a loss as to what to do with two cars as a single fellow....

Location?

Massiveglory:
States like rivers, akwaibom, bauchi, jos , nasarawa, lagos and more are states where LP votes were either suppressed or outrightly stolen and added to the yakubu select.

We are not so bothered because we know the authentic winner of the election will get his mandate back.

It is not a mistake that the riggers forgot to rig abuja.

They didn't fgt it was just difficult to
Votes where clearly suppressed in Abuja as well my polling results tell me so

But which kind military walk in straight formation
They can easily b killed by opponents

Ahmed0336:
How sabiu Tunde a thirty something years old youth is this powerful still amaze me.

I'm dumbfounded, flabbergasted and perplexed at the same time

Buhari's nephew one whom he's well pleased with named him after Tunde Idaiagbon

Otitipupa:


He was the only one willing to take me in. I planned to stay a short while till I could get a job and accommodation. I have no other option than to put up with him for now.

How do I rescue the girl?

Oga rescue yourself first.
So the first advice no enter your head

I pity people wey think say Obi na weak person

You dey smoke eegbo

lhordspy:


I stopped reading whatever the Op was saying when i got to this:

"The NC is divided into two the Christian part and the Muslim part...the Christian section which consists of Nassarawa, Benue, Plateau, Abuja tend to tilt towards Southerners and that is obi"


It is so funny when people who havent been to the north, will just sit and start analysing according to what they wish or what they heard. Imagine someone calling Abuja and Nasawarawa state christians sections. Lol.


Let me just analyse nasarawa electoral strategy a little.

Nasarawa voters are dominated by majorly fulani and mostly ebira the ones from Nasarawa toto, and egon. This are core voters, when i mean core, like they take election period so serious and sacred. They dont joke with it...

I can bet any amount that in nasarawa, kogi and abj.. The three northcentral states that obi wont have a total of 20,000 votes combine.

I have been saying this and i am repeating it... When i see obi supporters mentioning northcentral like it is some kinda walkover state. I just laugh. Some of them havent even been there before. They dont even know the states that makes up the North-central. They just follow what they heard on social media and start concluding. Very funny.

I voted in Nasarawa 2019, i left kd to vote there. I voted for Atiku/obi but APC won the state massively during the presidential election. Infact the present governor, A.A sule even stated that the outcome of the presidential election was what gave him his victory one week later against the PDP candidate, Ombagidibo.

From your analysis you're the one exhibiting naivety here, how can you associate voting of nasarawa with the fulanis instead of egons

Triangles1:
If you think ASUU are fighting for the interest of students you're deceiving your self, the money Jonathan paid during his tenure they should show us what they use it for.


A lecturer can decide to let you graduate or not, lecturer can decide to fail you for no reason and nobody can probe them.

na ur mumu na e tu much

All these kind works na buhari dey feature

But no body is holding from other regions Mai e go na

successmatters:


Show us where he mentioned IPOB or walk away in shame.

Peter Obi is your next president so you should start now to get used to respecting him.

Even if he mentioned IPOB and so what ?
No mind them was it not d same govt that turned some IPOB element to monster

I just pity for students though
bcus I'm not seeing someone who has been paid for seven months to go back to class room

na English una dey speak
Strategic meeting that cannot offer anything

Unzerious:


Only Fidelity bank is owned by an Igbo man.

Zenith, Uba, Access/Diamond (The Top 5), and suspiciously TTB/Union Banks are owned by Bendelites.

Bendelites is a tribe just to suits your narration

Rozross:
Why is Peter Obi avoiding the north?

You build from your home first,
First rule of politics

When he was the running mate of Atiku in 2019 nobody said he was an IPOB apologist
Reno and hypocrisy are like 5&6

How Ibadan was also a capital

Crazybeard:
I listened to Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party on Sunrise Daily, a Channels television breakfast program. I must state here that I have my reservations about his grasp of Nigeria's problems, and his ability to proffer solutions. He deflected a lot of the questions put to him and wasn't convincing with his responses.

Yeah, he is "only" a vice presidential candidate. But then, my thinking is that the vice president of any country should be as sound as the president, if not better.

I may be wrong though. What are your thoughts?

I'm curious.

He is not a good orator but per say but very intelligent � man

thedio:

Sultan from Osun? R u sure u did not escape from lambo hall.
Can u get olu of warri from cross river

Is sultan not the leader of Muslims in Nigeria ?

How far when we go gt sultan from osun State na or kwara

Creamypie:
its not their place. There is a reason for d Niger river that separates south from east

na ya mumu na e tu much
oya na go pursue dem