Runningwater:


So you go be professor to go teach primary school students?? Whats your point??

Come on sir, we aren't in books!! We're in real life!!

Permit me to add a voice to this. I am a teacher. I teach A Level and advanced placement courses. I have colleagues who have doctorate in early years and teach in preschool and elementary.....and yes, they deliberately obtained their doctorate in early years education, some of them even went abroad to study. Me that I teach advanced classes, my salary is way below theirs'.
To say that someone cannot obtain a higher degree just to teach primary students is a Nigerian-educational-system-induced-mentality. Foundation is very key. Many international schools will invest huge capitals in early years than others.
I am not saying professors shouldn't be paid what they are due o. It is infact a national disgrace that a professor earns below $1000. One reason why the country has gone back beyond the stone age

Dvdpity:


Please post the salary of a British or American professor. I dare you. Its a challenge. Post the salary of educators in Britain and USA. If possible post the salaries of professors with specialization in medicine and other professional studies. I dare you.

People in industries, doctors, engineers etc earn far more than lecturers in sane countries. Most lecturers work part-time like 2days a week, and work another 3 days in their industries, and their teaching pay is pro-rated. Let's stop deceiving ourselves in Nigeria

You feel ashamed? Let me rephrase the shame I feel.
I feel ashamed that you an architect is head of TETFund.
That you served as permanent secretary to the Ministry of Education is okay but being moved to TETFund is the biggest slap to all educationist because a teacher will never manage an architectural firm nor a hospital.
Why this government believes that an architect is best to manage TETFund is most baffling as Nigeria has no shortfall of educators and that is the very SHAME tbat I feel.

REALretep:
Who trains the primary school teachers?

Who trained the professor?

REALretep:
Who trains the primary school teachers?

Those who trained the teachers were first trained by Primary School Teachers. You won't get anywhere with this argument

There is only one professor in Nigeria, that's prof. Wole Soyinka. I will all add Achebe. To me he is a prof. Those two lived up to the bill. But you see the likes of prof. Iwu, Attairu Jega they shouldn't be earning anything

No need to be ashamed... The average Nigerian is neither ashamed nor bothered about such anomalies.


That's why they campaign for poorly educated charlatans to lead them, while their best brains are doing wonders in other nations!

Sulele04:

yes university should charge 1 million naira cause University is for only politicians children.

Let the rest of the poor man children go, and do banditry or thuggery whichever one.

Afterall the federal government can't afford any thing they can only afford to send their children abroad to study.

There is no need to quote me throwing a childish tantrum. That is my opinion you are entitled to have a different opinion. If you want to engage , be polite and talk like an adult. That means solution focussed discourse.
I am not God my opinion is just the way I see it .You do not have to agree. The simple truth is quality education costs money. Even if we want it to be free to the students the universities should be paid otherwise you just build a place call it university and award degrees after 4 years . We must do some calculations of what its costs to provide university education on average for 1 person each year rather than pretend. If you put a car on the road you cannot pretend you must buy petrol or diesel. Universities should be separate from government and if governments wants to give scholarships to everyone so be it at least people will know exactly how much government is spending on each student
With this your approach what do you want from me?

They want to finish all the money because they are professors. Go back and farm then

ivolt:

Some of you guys like throwing empty words around to feel superior.
How much is the basic salary of a Ghanain professor in dollars?

This madness of trying to earn in dollars while working in Nigeria for Nigerians is funny. When both economy is not the same.

While the take home pay of a professor in Nigeria is nothing to write home about, some of them do carry themselves like demigods in the university! They sometimes treat other lecturers (PhD holders) like slaves!

Whereas, their counterparts in Europe and North America are down to earth, understanding and easy going humans who earn more money and possesses more endowment funds than them.

masmnd8:
Cuz Nigeria is broke, money no dey like b4. We doubled the population in 30 years and the revenue remained stagnant.

hmmm and yet the northerners are still breeding any how

aribisala0:
There is no need to quote me throwing a childish tantrum. Talk like an adult. That is my opinion you are entitled to have a different opinion. If you want to engage , be polite and talk like an adult. That means solution focussed discourse.
I am not God my opinion is just the way I see it .You do not have to agree.
With this your approach what do you want from me?

It seems I struck a nerve.

Is your father a theif theif politician.
Why are you pained.

I didn't attack you.
All I did was add pepper to your soup.

We are both saying the same thing.

Education is not government responsibility.
They cannot afford it.
Let them pay 1 million as school fees in Unilag, Ui, and co.

Those that can't afford it should consider banditry, thuggery, or garage work.

Sulele04:

It seems I struck a nerve.

Is your father a theif theif politician.
Why are you pained.

I didn't attack you.
All I did was add pepper to your soup.

We are both saying the same thing.

Education is not government responsibility.
They cannot afford it.
Let them pay 1 million as school fees in Unilag, Ui, and co.

Those that can't afford it should consider banditry, thuggery, or garage work.

I am not interested in talking with rude people that is all. Good luck and best wishes

Dvdpity:

Did you actually attend a good school?. Don't you know that in the university, there exists a faculty of education?. In that faculty, there are professors.
Nigerians! Destroy education and your type are worst. Ignorance at it height.

Hahahaha.

You are both right.
Come to think of it, who wrote the first Syllabus for the first Engineering degree programme.

The fellow(s) was/were certainly not 'Engineers'.

Dvdpity:


Try to understand the point.

Primary school tutors in Nigerian school systems or anywhere in the world attended the university. Hence they were educated by professors.
Hopefully you will understand.

Things aren't always as easy to explain away.

For instance, who do you think wrote the first Syllabus for the first Engineering degree programme first offered in a University?

Where they (the writers) Engineers? Certainly not!

Hahahah.

Life's strange.

aribisala0:

I am not interested in talking with rude people that is all. Good luck and best wishes

hahaha I guess you have no point then cause I was definitely not rude.

Good luck and best wishes to you also.

Runningwater:


My point is that why people are clamouring for increase in salary for professors, they shouldn't forget the bedrock of formal education!!! Secondary school teachers

Nah, majority of the primary school teachers in my state didn't attend University. It's NCE graduates that dominate o.

I don't think any of my Professors earned below 2M a month back then. These guys leveraged their position to start well-established companies. Professors wey dey collect block as royalties on their IPs, them nor even get our time that year, instead, they were more invested in their companies (oil servicing).

What makes $1000 in Naira has been gradually rising.

From N 250k in 2015 to ~ N600k today.
If this continues, virtually all Nigerians (Salaried) would earn below $1000. Not just Profs.

Elock1:

Abeg make everybody 4 this country go siddon
The professors way dey this country no know book atall
Na to dey speak useless grammar dem sabi.

Just imagine the state of the nation, yet these so called professors no get any vital imput

Na to dey carry big big manuscript about then tell students that in their days they took education serious unlike our generation.

Honestly I don't see anything educative about naija professors.. Walai

Omo, maybe the professors you know o. The professors that taught me during the time I was pursuing a degree in Chemistry at LAUTECH are highly intelligent beings o. I can name some of them now cos na dem shape me bro.

Tb222:
Hmmn so pathetic in a country where yahoo bous are being paid above $23000,so pathetic.

you talk shyt like a preacher.xdd

Elock1:

Abeg make everybody 4 this country go siddon
The professors way dey this country no know book atall
Na to dey speak useless grammar dem sabi.

Just imagine the state of the nation, yet these so called professors no get any vital imput

Na to dey carry big big manuscript about then tell students that in their days they took education serious unlike our generation.

Honestly I don't see anything educative about naija professors.. Walai

Whether you like it or not, they still add value to the youths. Most of our senators earn more than those professors and are adding lesser value to Nigeria right now.

Runningwater:


I'm seeing above $70k for professors from indeed job website then while for high school teachers I'm seeing above $60k. All yearly median salary.

So you're saying because US active professors are receiving well, all our prof should do the same?

How many academic achievements or research our own profs have done in general aside from few schools like UI and others?

That's why they are asking for increase in salary...No be who chop belle full go do research??

BTW, do you know dat the research are from their pocket..they want government to sponsor it

Dybala11:

Omo, maybe the professors you know o. The professors that taught me during the time I was pursuing a degree in Chemistry at LAUTECH are highly intelligent beings o. I can name some of them now cos na dem shape me bro.

My point is.. What have they done collectively for the Nation?

What will you now do about it

Elock1:
My point is.. What have they done collectively for the Nation?

They've done a lot, their efforts are not getting the right consideration/remuneration. One of my professors (Professor Abbas) was listed as one of the top 2% or so scientist in the world before his demise months ago. Majority of these professors do fund research works with the meagre and delayed salary they get from the government. I still stand on my words bro, there are lots of brilliant minds in our educational sector, it's a pity that the country is forcing them out hence the recent increase in the brain drain we're experiencing in the country. One of my professors in the field of organic chemistry/synthesis tried to synthesize a possible drug molecule and had a big problem getting access to facilities needed to carry out certain tests/procedures on the molecule.
I also remembered the day I had the opportunity to know/see the contributions of another professor in my Alma mater during an academic lecture, I couldn't help but marvel bro. And all of them are lecturing at LAUTECH o, not even at the likes of UI/Unilag etc. Our educational sector is in ruin bro.

And should I burst your bubble bro, some of the pharmaceutical companies we have in Nigeria don't even synthesize paracetamol themselves, they just get the active ingredient from overseas in bulk and then mix it with the additives and start selling

In buhari voice, Nigeria professor's can't solve any problem in Nigeria.