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Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by nnamdi640: 8:00am On Aug 18, 2025
goatandyam:
You mean the unproductive professors. Professors that are practically empty.

No innovation, no invention. No nothing. Just a waste of classroom space.

The same professorship that you can easily use money to buy.

They ain't different from those senators in terms of productivity. They are in the same category of shameful emptiness
Don't say what you don't know, they don't need to invent before you will know that they are productive, no matter how you see it, they deserve a better pay than the so called senators who just sit and collect money. Beside, those professors you are saying are less productive have lectured so many students of which some are doing well.
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by PJ123: 8:07am On Aug 18, 2025
BodyCount:
This is why it'll continue not to be well with many of you. Because you connect partisanship, tribe and politics to EVERYTHING.
This topic is not about some particular professors or university staff, it's more about fairness and doing the right thing.
How can it be okay that average salary of professors in:
Ghana is x4
Kenya is X5
South Africa is x8 etc
To what Nigerian professors receive?

Meanwhile, Nigeria is even richer than all these countries.

WHY IS IT THAT IT'S ONLY NIGERIAN PROFESSORS THAT RECEIVES THE HIGHEST SALARIES IN THE WORLD?

You expect government not to be paying staff well and you expect the staff be work well and be faithful and diligent with work?

Later, you blame them for collecting bribe.

Nigeria is one of the few countries in the world that an average senior civil servants can't afford a new car or house even with their 10 years salary.
Wake up!
You don't need to results to curses because someone doesn't share your views or opinions.

What of primI school teachers in South Africa.
What of Secondary schools teachers in South Africa or UK.

Don't forget some bank managers left their work to work as caregiver in UK. What who you say about that.

The issue with Nigeria is about general living conditions.
If everyone keeps comparing their salaries, there would not be headway for the country.

Government should improve living conditions for all in terms of security, good roads, improved health care services and reduced environmental pollution. Then you choose your career, if you want to earn as banker go there, if you want to earn as a politician go there.
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by 77up(m): 8:11am On Aug 18, 2025
APCNig:
Shey professors dey each more than Senators in US? Or Shey professors dey earn more than sportsmen in the so called developed nations? Shebi some professors don join Politics, make the rest too join nah, after all, we want the best brains to lead us, not the crop of 3rd Class Philosophy graduate now hacking Jollof rice at Owambe parties
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Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by BodyCount: 8:15am On Aug 18, 2025
PJ123:
You don't need to results to curses because someone doesn't share your views or opinions.

What of primI school teachers in South Africa.
What of Secondary schools teachers in South Africa or UK.

Don't forget some bank managers left their work to work as caregiver in UK. What who you say about that.

The issue with Nigeria is about general living conditions.
If everyone keeps comparing their salaries, there would not be headway for the country.

Government should improve living conditions for all in terms of security, good roads, improved health care services and reduced environmental pollution. Then you choose your career, if you want to earn as banker go there, if you want to earn as a politician go there.
No be you go tell me waiting I need or not need.

This issue is still about general living in Nigeria, because you can connect this salary issue MINIMUM WAGE.
Minimum wage in Nigeria is less than $50, yet a lot of states is still not paying it after many years of so-called implementation. Yet all those states collect monthly federal allocations and security votes.

Last week, Alex otti is not paying teachers well and not paying the minimum wage used 25 BILLION NAIRA to build 3 bungalow blocks classroom, an amount that can build 500 copies without corruption and stealing.
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by Kingzjayzee: 8:20am On Aug 18, 2025
adenigga:
Source: https://dailytrust.com/109-senators-pay-enough-for-4708-professors-salaries
Later now one so called senator will come out and say we will pity him if we see his salary and allowance. So na 21.6million wey you dey collect we go pity you? Hmm. No problem.
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by WriterX(m): 8:25am On Aug 18, 2025
I believe the lots of you who are busy defending a country and its politicians have never been able to understand or go through the four walls of the school.

Keep defending them, you will get an award soon enough.
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by PJ123: 8:29am On Aug 18, 2025
BodyCount:
No be you go tell me waiting I need or not need.

This issue is still about general living in Nigeria, because you can connect this salary issue MINIMUM WAGE.
Minimum wage in Nigeria is less than $50, yet a lot of states is still not paying it after many years of so-called implementation. Yet all those states collect monthly federal allocations and security votes.

Last week, Alex otti is not paying teachers well and not paying the minimum wage used 25 BILLION NAIRA to build 3 bungalow blocks classroom, an amount that can build 500 copies without corruption and stealing.
I got your point about mismanagement and corruption in Nigeria polity. This is a systemic problem that has pervaded every fabric of our society. Corruption in academics is also at alarming scale so also in the civil service.

The money being stolen by politicians and in other sectors is not meant to increase salaries of some people but rather judiciously used to improve the general conditions of the country both for the current generation and generations yet unborn.

We still don't have standard hospitals in Nigeria, we are still faced with high level of insecurity and many roads in the Urban centers are still in poor conditions, not to talk of roads in rural sectors.

I have seen several times of a Vice chancellor of a leading University in South Africa driving himself out from the school during my short stay in that school. This cannot happen in Nigeria.

A friend of my mine who did his PhD in Italy told me the he had been in the same Train several times with the head of that University.

And one occasion he summoned the courage to approach the woman and ask Prof where's your official car.

The woman responded we don't have such money in this country.



May God help Nigeria!!!!
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by TheOldGods: 8:37am On Aug 18, 2025
funsho75:
It is not by force to be a professor na


Make then self go do politics
you see the reason Nigerian can never get better. So someone that loves teaching and knows that is where he will make the highest impact and change peoples lives, but because the money is small, then he leaves his calling to join politics. Politics that he has no single ambition for. Politics that he never had any strategies. No way to impact the people.he joins it just cause there is money. And if he underperformed you say he is corrupt, while u were the one who enabled him. Some one found his career in teaching but you forced him to another part where he will never make an impact, but just to make money. Sometimes I wonder the kind of people i am bundled with in this Nigeria. Are you people outrightly myopic or something?

Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by biafranrealson: 8:38am On Aug 18, 2025
Its pathetic
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by TheBizGenius: 8:44am On Aug 18, 2025
N21.6m?

1. Did anyone reading this notice that the amount is not the salary of the politician?! It's the salary and "running costs" for the office.

Anyone who understands running costs understand that it includes staff salaries and benefits; security, administrative, gofers etc. It also includes "constitutional" demands in the form of indegenes begging for succor.

2. Most of the people here don't understand the actual work of a lawmaker.

Comparing him/her to a professor is like comparing a board member of a company to its technical officer. The technical officer might be doing the hard work but it is the board of directors that sits in one cushioned office to give direction to the company.

Brain Teaser:
Who would you pay more; a captain on a ship or the guys under the deck doing the dirty work?
This answer will determine who you will value more; the professor or the politician.

Note:
I do not get involved in politics.
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by Totalrecovery: 8:48am On Aug 18, 2025
adenigga:
Source: https://dailytrust.com/109-senators-pay-enough-for-4708-professors-salaries
It's the same professors that would be used by politicians to rig elections
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by Hedonisco: 8:56am On Aug 18, 2025
The professors are as useless as the senators. Who them help?
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by InvertedHammer: 9:05am On Aug 18, 2025
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I believe that everyone in Nigeria deserves what they get paid directly or indirectly.

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Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by ZombieTAMER: 9:23am On Aug 18, 2025
fixedhollies:
See how people are defending their oppressors up there. Just to exonerate their downpressors. A society that rewards politics like ours can’t grow
Those things are not people but programed bots
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by obayendo1010(m): 9:31am On Aug 18, 2025
Failed Professors, if you can not navigate your way into the systems to establish an upright setting for everyone interest, means there are just clueless like others in the system.
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by lordprogress: 10:04am On Aug 18, 2025
israelmao:
So much to the relegation of academicians in Nigeria.The gap between senator's take-home pay and that of prof.is as wide as the gap between heaven and earth.
i wanted to apply for a masters in phil(then phd) when i see the process i have to go through to be a lecturer, i needed to give at least 6 years from my life to achieve a doctorate degree just to lecture i just weak.
its not like they are earning anything worth mentioning.
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by Osgilliat(m): 10:13am On Aug 18, 2025
Professors are about to start their wahala, they are looking for a new angle to go on strike.
The so called naija professors lack passion for the job, they are just there for money. A real professor wouldn’t be fighting for a jumbo pay when he or she can easily multiply current pay using investments and businesses.
If you want to be paid like senators then join politics. Stop comparing salaries. Ever wonder why naija professors are not japa like nurses?
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by Doobie: 11:04am On Aug 18, 2025
From the comments here, I can now understand why Nigerian politicians take advantage of their electorates once in office
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by frog12: 2:41pm On Aug 18, 2025
these professors salaries is good enough. i mean 500k a month is too small? shocked shocked shocked shocked

make dem boycott everything and let the senators fix nigeria joor
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by Kaffytiamiyu(f): 3:54pm On Aug 18, 2025
Doobie:
From the comments here, I can now understand why Nigerian politicians take advantage of their electorates once in office
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by Lovenorth: 7:19am On Aug 19, 2025
APCNig:
Are you talking about your personal life? If then, pray oooooo
I don't like to joint issues with the terrorist party
Re: 109 Senators’ Pay Enough For 4,708 Professors’ Salaries by Coolgent(m): 9:00am On Aug 19, 2025
Ok, tell us how many billions those 108 senators spent on order to be where they are.
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