All civil servants in Nigeria especially those in the ministries are underpaid, not just lecturers or professors.

SUPERPACK:
The professors should retire let us drink water in peace. As if they have anything to contribute than their ego, boastfulness and tiredness. The country should consider paying the junior and vibrant lecturers more.

Lol
The pple that really do the job are teachers in primary and secondary schools and being paid peanuts. Not those ones in higher institutions sitting in big offices and publishing empty books that they will force students to buy

What special about our Nigerian professors
How much are those who go out everyday to serve Nigerians, who don't know if they would come back to their loved ones

What of our primary school teachers, who teach u how to read and write

The two professors I came across in the last 1yr are drunks...

Misterone:
yeah! You guys should be paid in dollars cause you teach in dollars. Useless copy and paste professors

U dey vex o

Jman06:
Your post reeks of ignorance!

A professor's work is not just to teach but also to carry out research and community services. None of these three aspects is easy nor comparable to works of a primary school teacher!

A professor teaches not only undergraduate students but also postgraduate students( Masters and PhD students). He also examines and marks their exam scripts. He supervises undergraduate and postgraduate (MSC and PhD) students during their research projects etc. Go to a typical Nigerian university and see the multitude of students a professor has to teach in a class!

A professor also has to carryout researches and publish the outcomes in reputable journals ( local and international) before he can earn his promotion. It costs a lot of money -- sometimes in hard currencies, to publish research works. Not to talk of the money spent carrying out the research. Materials like reagents, machines etc are quite expensive (where they are available at all in Nigeria). Sometimes, they are bought from overseas and you can imagine the financial implications.

Professors also carryout community services. You may doubt it, but when problems arise in the community, professors in universities are usually called in to proffer solutions. It happened during COVID19, even though they were not properly engaged the way they should due to our corrupt political system. Another instance of where professors get engaged to solve problems in the community is during poisoning outbreak. For example, there was once an outbreak of heavy metals poisoning in a state in the northern part of the country. Professors from ABU were called upon and they helped in confirming that it was actually Lead (a heavy metal) and that the source was actually from mining activities taking place there. The list goes on.

Let's also not forget that it typically takes a BSc, MSc and PhD to be in the cue for consideration for appointment as a professor while one typically needs just an NCE or at best a B.Ed to be employed as a primary school teacher. Go figure the cost of doing MSc and PhD in this country in terms of time, energy and financial commitments. Let's keep BSc out of the equation.

So, let's not be biased in our judgment of issues. Though the importance of primary school teachers should not be be underestimated, they should never be compared with the university professors. They're miles apart!

What research and community services have they rendered? Who has felt the impact? It is useless to produce work that nobody needs/reads/can even find. All these "reputable journals" were started by somebody. What's stopping them from having their own? With time and quality work, won't it become reputable too?

I dont know about you but in my school, it's mostly the postgraduate students that teach the undergraduates on behalf of "their professors"

Why don't these professors apply for grants for their research work? Is that not how its done in the West? They probably won't/don't apply/get grants because the research most of them do is of no relevance especially in the Social sciences/Arts etc. They just keep recycling the same work.

Also in those countries they keep trying to emulate, their universities are not wholly funded by the government. The professors there bring in funds to carry out their research and even pay postgraduate students to either teach/research. The only thing the government does is set a constraint/subsidise the fees undergraduate students are charged for their program. If ASUU insists universities must be autonomous, they should be autonomous in full. You can't do want you want and expect someone else to pay for it! They're being paid with taxpayers money and are keeping taxpayers children at home.

A quick Google search would've shown the source of the lead poisoning. Fact is; for workers in the public sector (not just ASUU), most times, their output doesn't justify the pay. It is hypocritical of ASUU to demand to be paid on similar levels of their counterparts in developed countries when this country is nowhere near developed. Are they the only public workers in the country? Why do they keep insisting on UTAS? Why can't they fix the problems with IPPIS and make it like their dear UTAS? After the 9 month strike of 2020 they're giving us another 6 months strike and you say they render community services? How chaotic would it be if all sectors had their own payment system?

The cost of doing BSc, Msc and PhD shouldn't pass 8/9 years in total but because of these same professors that'll go on strike, "sex for grades", "sorting" and all sorts of rubbish, people can't even estimate how long they'll stay at BSc level. Whose fault exactly is that? Student ID card has expired yet somebody is still a student.

In as much as FG is to blame here, ASUU should stop painting themselves as saints. Always talking about money that was looted as if they don't commit their own sins. Infact their meetings should be aired live on TV so the public will know what's actually going on. It's not to come out after meetings and say "agreement is on President's desk" and Ngige will reply that there's no such thing.

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.

If they return, no one would pay attention to them. That method has never worked

I totally agree with you, and we have the failed system of our country to blame largely. This is why we need to focus on more than one stream of income especially with the current state of our economy. This will keep getting worse, except something is done urgently. If we are interested in exploring other source of income, contact me via Whatsapp on 07086542202 as I am having a training on how you can scale up your income to earning 100-150k weekly

Jman06:
Your post reeks of ignorance!

A professor's work is not just to teach but also to carry out research and community services. None of these three aspects is easy nor comparable to works of a primary school teacher!

A professor teaches not only undergraduate students but also postgraduate students( Masters and PhD students). He also examines and marks their exam scripts. He supervises undergraduate and postgraduate (MSC and PhD) students during their research projects etc. Go to a typical Nigerian university and see the multitude of students a professor has to teach in a class!

A professor also has to carryout researches and publish the outcomes in reputable journals ( local and international) before he can earn his promotion. It costs a lot of money -- sometimes in hard currencies, to publish research works. Not to talk of the money spent carrying out the research. Materials like reagents, machines etc are quite expensive (where they are available at all in Nigeria). Sometimes, they are bought from overseas and you can imagine the financial implications.

Professors also carryout community services. You may doubt it, but when problems arise in the community, professors in universities are usually called in to proffer solutions. It happened during COVID19, even though they were not properly engaged the way they should due to our corrupt political system. Another instance of where professors get engaged to solve problems in the community is during poisoning outbreak. For example, there was once an outbreak of heavy metals poisoning in a state in the northern part of the country. Professors from ABU were called upon and they helped in confirming that it was actually Lead (a heavy metal) and that the source was actually from mining activities taking place there. The list goes on.

Let's also not forget that it typically takes a BSc, MSc and PhD to be in the cue for consideration for appointment as a professor while one typically needs just an NCE or at best a B.Ed to be employed as a primary school teacher. Go figure the cost of doing MSc and PhD in this country in terms of time, energy and financial commitments. Let's keep BSc out of the equation.

So, let's not be biased in our judgment of issues. Though the importance of primary school teachers should not be be underestimated, they should never be compared with the university professors. They're miles apart!

SUPERPACK:
The professors should retire let us drink water in peace. As if they have anything to contribute than their ego, boastfulness and tiredness. The country should consider paying the junior and vibrant lecturers more.

Lol... You guys just type out of frustration. You want them to pay the junior ones more than those who manage them ,assign them tasks and determine thier promotion? OK.

The salary range of university lecturers is very appalling and it's now open to everyone.

I just hope lecturers are not downgraded like secondary school teachers. Where ladies reject you, landlord would give you accomodation even with money just because you are a lecturer.

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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

abeg go sit down
There are talking of payment of money u r talking about low salary. You making this post it's either you are part of nasu or ASUU.
Na another whahala u dey find so.
Or they should pay them $1 million dollar each before your mind go come ground

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

I like your argument.

Keep it up.

Lastbornbuns:
What research and community services have they rendered? Who has felt the impact? It is useless to produce work that nobody needs/reads/can even find. All these "reputable journals" were started by somebody. What's stopping them from having their own? With time and quality work, won't it become reputable too?

I dont know about you but in my school, it's mostly the postgraduate students that teach the undergraduates on behalf of "their professors"

Why don't these professors apply for grants for their research work? Is that not how its done in the West? They probably won't/don't apply/get grants because the research most of them do is of no relevance especially in the Social sciences/Arts etc. They just keep recycling the same work.

Also in those countries they keep trying to emulate, their universities are not wholly funded by the government. The professors there bring in funds to carry out their research and even pay post hardware students to either teach/research. The only thing the government does is set a constraint/subsidise the fees undergraduate students are charged for their program. If ASUU insists universities must be autonomous, they should be autonomous in full. You can't do want you want and expect someone else to pay for it! They're being paid with taxpayers money and are keeping taxpayers children at home.

A quick Google search would've shown the source of the lead poisoning. Fact is; for workers in the public sector (not just ASUU), most times, their output doesn't justify the pay. It is hypocritical of ASUU to demand to be paid on similar levels of their counterparts in developed countries when this country is nowhere near developed. Are they the only public workers in the country? Why do they keep insisting on UTAS? Why can't they fix the problems with IPPIS and make it like their dear UTAS? After the 9 month strike of 2020 they're giving us another 6 months strike and you say they render community services? How chaotic would it be if all sectors had their own payment system?

The cost of doing BSc, Msc and PhD shouldn't pass 8/9 years in total but because of these same professors that'll go on strike, "sex for grades", "sorting" and all sorts of rubbish, people can't even estimate how long they'll stay at BSc level. Whose fault exactly is that? Student ID card has expired yet somebody is still a student.

In as much as FG is to blame here, ASUU should stop painting themselves as saints. Always talking about money that was looted as if they don't commit their own sins. Infact their meetings should be aired live on TV so the public will know what's actually going on. It's not to come out after meetings and say "agreement is on President's desk" and Ngige will reply that there's no such thing.

You're making a lot of sense.