Commentor:
How much do you want a Lecturer to earn and how much does his/her peers earn in similar economies - Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Angola etc?

Emmamay10:
We all know that lecturers in Nigeria are being underpaid. I know their plights. I'm currently undertaking my second degree, and my supervisor is a professor. I know how he and his other colleagues have been coping. With the look of things now, it seems ASUU is holding FG to ransom, which is not good enough. What ASUU is doing to the FG now, they(ASUU) will never accept that from students body.Just like what the FG is proposing, ASUU should return to lecture rooms while negotiation continues.

Vyzz:




Na why dem go kill we student?

Runningwater:


I tire ooo. How much do primary school teachers earn self??

Runningwater:


I tire ooo. How much do primary school teachers earn self??

Ulunne777:
Fraud is converting the salary in dollars.
Every sector in Nigeria are been underpaid if you want to go that route.
Is it the same lecturers;
that hardly come for lectures
the ones that use outdated notes
the ones with nothing upstairs yet became lecturers courtesy of IM,
the ones that embezzle funds made for research purposes
the professors that'd delay a masters /phd degree program till infinity
The professors~Inec commsioners who are part of the rot in our elections .
the sex for grade ones
the sadists,
the ones you must submit tests with money,
The ones who sell plagairised textbooks and claim theirs.etc
There a re good lecturers though

Imagine where the minimum wage is 30k,yet some ppl don't earn up to that.We need better labor laws and enforcement not singling out a particular group for pity

CBDC:


I currently earn 15000 + 3 children doing lesson 3000.... That's 18k but it feels like earning nothing, I can't even buy clothes or feed good out of it

Jman06:
Stop comparing a professor with a primary school teacher! The scope of work and qualifications are wide apart.

Tmex:
As much as i agree with the write up it will be wrong to single a profession for a fair treatment what happens in Nigeria cuts across every profession. What we should instead clamour for is a change in our labour law.

Runningwater:


I don't blame you anyway sha

Soon people like you go dey say profs are important than the mothers of the Nigerian society.

Whether prof or secondary school teacher they're all important so stop seeing from one side of the coin when both are needed for any society ready for educational change

Jman06:
Stop comparing a professor with a primary school teacher! The scope of work and qualifications are wide apart.

sinkhole:
The embarrassing salary of a Nigerian university lecturer.

“On salaries of lecturers, I feel ashamed because I had the privilege to represent Nigeria at a global conference where former presidents and prime ministers were in attendance. I was asked if it is true that a professor after 20 years still earns less than a thousand dollars a month, I couldn’t answer that question, I only said that we are doing something about it".
~ Sonny Echono, The retired permanent secretary turned TETFund ES.

You don't know how embarrassing the salary of a Nigerian Lecturer is till you are filing a form to compete with academics around the world and on the form, you are to select your current salary. It is usually in dollars. Our salary range is usually not on the list. You have to state the dollar equivalent of your salary on the provided empty field named "others". It is not on the drop-down menu because an academic anywhere in the world is not expected to earn such a ridiculous salary.

When the Nigerian government knows the worth of their universities, the Professor's salary was next to the salary of the CJN. But today, ordinary tax collectors at FIRS earn higher than Professors. And the Ministry of Finance where there was more than N170bn for the suspended AGF to swindle is blabbing that a Professor cannot earn a naira equivalent of $3,000 and Nigerians are clapping. Tomorrow you will be asking why Nigerian Professors can't be like the Professors in Oxford. Are they treated like Oxford Professors?

When we are ready to make progress, there will be a call for a national conference with all the stakeholders in attendance to discuss "our idea of a Nigerian university system".

©Amoka

Lastbornbuns:

A primary school teacher teaches the foundation of all subjects. You'd see one person teaching maths, English, computer, French and even religious subjects to small children that don't know right from left. But a professor concentrates only on an aspect of a subject.

The professor might have just one or two classes in a day then it's back to the office for them (that's if they even come). Primary school teachers stand on their feet all day! They even supervise lunch breaks. Have you ever spent a whole day with a child between the ages of 5 and 10 that's not yours? Do you know how active they are? Now imagine when you're in charge of a class that's 15+ in number, imagine getting them to keep quiet and learn. At the end of the month you're paid less than minimum wage and someone that's earning way more than what you're earning is keeping your own children at home and wasting your money. The structures in public secondary schools are even worse than those in the universities

What do these professors even do? Who reads their work? When Oxford professors and scientists were working on the AstraZeneca vaccine, where were they? Now they want to earn what those people are earning. Always complaining their pay is low when the entry level pay is like 150k per month (500% of minimum wage) as if its not what's obtainable in the public sector.