₦airaland Forum

*Government 'No Work, No Pay' and Lecturers' No Pay, No Work in Arrears*

Minister of Education said lecturers would not be paid their 6 months withheld salaries. It is very unfortunate that the Minister does not understand the operations of the ministry he is heading. The implications are far reaching and I will state some of them here:

1. Spilled-over students whose results are yet to get approval from Senate would not be attended to because these are academic works in arrears (2021/2022 session) that government does not want to pay for. So, no graduation.

2. Final year students who have written exams or yet to write will remain on campus because their scripts will not be marked and the outstanding semester exams will not be conducted. These are academic works in arrears (2021/2022) that government does not want to pay for.

3. For other levels (1 to 3 or to 5), each student should be ready for extra one year or semester as the case may be. If exams have been conducted for second semester, then those students have one semester more. But if results of first semester have not been released, then one extra year. This is because no academic works in arrears would be attended to because government does not want to pay to them.

4. As long as final year students are not graduated, no new intakes and the ripple implication is that JAMB will continue to have backlogs of students waiting to be admitted.

4. The summary of this is that all 2021/2022 session academic works in arrears will not be attended to because they are all works in arrears that government want lecturers to do without without being paid for.

So, it is very unreasonable for government to state that lecturers will not be paid withheld salaries. Lecturers job is not like any ministry job. Adamu Adamu need to get that into his skull.

For parents, stakeholders and students, one does not need to explain further the implications of all this. So, it appears that government is winning the battles but not the war.

Osuala, U.S.

[As a staff of one university, to qualify for adjunct or part lecturer in another university, you must be from from Senior Lecturer and above. Lecturers below the rank of senior lecturership do not go on adjunct. To get to a senior lecturer level, an academic staff must have served for an average 12 years with dues publication requirements. So my brother you can see that there is no correlation between fresh graduates not getting job and the practice of part-time or adjunct lecturing in the universities.
quote author=TopeQs post=89048492]wow....

just forget, even "senior" staffs don't know how not to show their selfish interest. IPPIS is just a way to curb staffs from collecting salary from more than one avenue, I don't know much about the senior staff but let me talk about the academic staff.

Let me paint a scenario for you, most federal Universities has a part time lecturer that has a full time job in another university, this is not bad but look at the case of some lecturers that go for part time lectures in as much as 3-4 other institutions, this way they are even making 3-4 people jobless because that could have been a job for fresh graduates.

I believe the IPPIS is meant to cover just one more visiting apart from your salary, ASUU will never tell you this but I will, those lecturers that have 2-3 part-time lecturing job will not want IPPIS because it will block the salary of the part-time job.
I can tell you that I know of a lecturer that has 4 part time lecturing job in another federal university, please, how will such a person have time for his own full time job, he will be joggling within states just to meet the other while not being able to put a focus on any of them, I was taught by one of them and he never had our time, then we run marathon class so as to cover up for his absenteeism.

ASUU are just motivated by selfish interest, they will never tell you this, this is not the first time that the government is changing their payment system, and it's not like their salary will be reduced, it is just those with too much of an extra work that will be affect.

the IPPIS was introduced to create transparency, yes, there are irregularities but that can definitely be sorted with time.

it is only the government that can be castigated by changing the way they want to pay their staff, could that happen to a private firm?

ponder on this.[/quote]

The fact is that there are more to why Port Harcourt and Calabar ports are not working than the nonpolitical and nonethnicized minds can see. In Development theory, everything that aids development matters, regardless of who owns what.

Politics of Seaport in Nigeria.

Before the establishment of Lagos Wharf Port were very advanced Port Harcourt and Calabar Seaports. The two collapsed completely due to the civil war. No effort was made again by the successive governments to reopen the ports. Of note, Seaport and sea transportation is an exclusive constitutional preserve of the Federal Government.

What then is preventing the Federal Government from reopening the Port Harcourt and Calabar Seaports? South Africa has four major seaports servicing its economy. Can't we emulate good things and leave ethnic politics aside.

Beggars are only seen in cities and streets where there is prospect of receiving arms. Abakaliki or any other city in Ebonyi does not qualify for such city, hence why you don't see beggars according to you. Should the fact that Ebonyian are hardworking and independent be taken for granted and as a basis for strangulating them? I do not oppose your view, anyways. After all, the essence of a debate such as this, is to get our leaders consolidate in areas they are doing well, and make effort to change in areas they are lagging.

This is not a political party matter. This is fact speaking. Only southern state in the top 10 poorest states; increase in poverty rate from 47% in 2014 to 73.6% today; Only state in Nigeria where civil servants are grossly and comprehensively under paid and denied promotion; only state in Nigeria where promotion and other workers entitlements are denied without reference, only state where the cost of land registration is ten folds the cost of the land itself. That is why Ebonyi State is different. We can keep politics aside till 2023 and focus on matters of national interest.

The next governor should focus on human capital development.[/quote]Done well no doubt, especially in throwing up to 27% of his people into the poverty well. God help us.

Done well no doubt, especially in throwing up to 27% of his people into the poverty well. God help us.

That Ebonyi State is a poor state is not a news. What is a news is that the state is the only Southern state with poverty rate as high as 73.6%, ranking along the conflict-ridden northern states like Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto, Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna, Borno, Yobe. Of note is that as at 2014, Ebonyi was only in the 17th position, with just 47% poverty rate.

Someone should honourably take responsibility of this deterioration. With this statistics, one wonders what is the basis for defining good leadership. A state where a level 15 civil servant of up 20 years in service goes home with a salary of barely N90,000; and a graduate at level 8 goes home with less than N25,000. Ebonyi is the only state where for the past 5 years, civil servants have only witness a single promotion (conducted last year for the purposes of election), where neither leave allowances nor promotion arrears have been paid for more than half a decade, and where pension and gratuity arrears are either owed with impunity or proudly paid in piece meal. To make matters worse, according to a recent policy of the State Government, promotion in the state civil service shall henceforth only be based on "vacancies" (and not merit nor seniority).

The problem is that there is no other industry in the state than the civil service. And so any policy that impoverishes the civil servant, automatically impoverishes all - the dependents and the traders. That the governance system in Ebonyi State has collapsed completely is an understatement. While the people die in penury, the Governor prides himself as being a God-sent - building flyovers, conference centres, malls, airport, ecumenical centre. Perhaps, I guess, he is building the roads to smooth the transition from poverty to death. Perhaps, like Sodom and Gomorrah, Ebonyi people are the most sinful and God has sent the governor to come and punish them according.

God help us.

See the 2019 Report of the National Bureau of Statistics; and https://leadership.ng/2019/04/23/insecurity-and-its-impact-on-northern-nigeria/

Existing petroleum pricing policies are infested with round tripping, arbitrage opportunities and black marketing. If the statistics quoted above are officially correct, be rest assured that the 160 tankers shall surely find their ways back to the southern cities where there are effective demand for the product. See more of this evidence fromhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S097308261600003X

JudismphD:
Take sole responsibility for your frustration and repressive life. Your hypocritical nature and lifestyle will continue to affect your thinking faculty. Is jonathan your father's age mate? Or any of your father's generation and genealogy attain his status in life to tag him clueless, President Jonathan inter alia? You can go commit sucide with the BRAINLESS Daura President if you are so pained.

May the Almighty God forgive you.Amen

abtmaviz:
Firstly, sorry I have to quote this.. Same stone that were thrown at GEJ is same being used against PMB and u r here ranting huh it never occur to you that GEJ was also an aged person irrespective of the irregularities.

Karma must pay somehow someday. I don't throw stone nt to kill birds buh to kill flies.

Bittersweet

Please learn. Parma doesn't have to pay through you.

Please how is Buhari disgracing you? I am pretty sure you aren't more than 24 years old and that you did not have the opportunity of been tutored the need to respect the aged so that your days will ne long. Presidency aside, do you know how old Buhari is? Do you feel satisfied insulting a man of over 70 years without provocacions? What a sorry state for kids like you.

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JudismphD:
the Daura President is confused.

I am pretty sure you aren't more than 24 years old and that you did not have the opportunity of been tutored the need to respect the aged so that your days will ne long. Presidency aside, do you know how old Buhari is? Do you feel satisfied insulting a man of over 70 years without provocacions? What a sorry state for kids like you.

[quote author=blessedbanky post=34802798][/quote]I am pretty sure you aren't more than 24 years old and that you did not have the opportunity of been tutored the need to respect the aged so that your days will ne long. Presidency aside, do you know how old Buhari is? Do you feel satisfied insulting a man of over 70 years without provocacions? What a sorry state for kids like you.

DrWise:
President Michelle can get some capable hands from West Germany.

I am pretty sure you aren't more than 24 years old and that you did not have the opportunity of been tutored the need to respect the aged so that your days will ne long. Presidency aside, do you know how old Buhari is? Do you feel satisfied insulting a man of over 70 years without provocacions? What a sorry state for kids like you.

I am pretty sure you aren't more than 24 years old and that you did not have the opportunity of been tutored the need to respect the aged so that your days will ne long. Presidency aside, do you know how old Buhari is? Do you feel satisfied insulting a man of over 70 years without provocacions? What a sorry state for kids like you.

Tallesty1:
Even the Jehova Witnesses cannot convince me to sleep on the first floor.

Neither the top nor the lower floor is safe though. But then that was the crude stage of even the most sophisticated technology you enjoy today.