₦airaland Forum

nairalanda1:
Endsars failed because at the end na only Abuja and Lagos people dey protest and pretty soon it was hijacked by agents of government and thugs and governors.

Not really true, I know of brutal protest in Ibadan, ogun, Osun, Kogi and Kwara. Protest shouldn't focusing only on destruction of the public properties of looting warehouse, "these are the only things that differentiate protest in Abuja and Lagos from other region"

bixton:
Your likes always like demonizing the President.

Let us face the wholesome truth, has it ever been better since 1999 till before PBAT?!!!!

Has ASUU not been going on strike since this democracy started in Nigeria and has any year gone past without ASUU not embarking on a strike ?

What has always been the major concern and issue for such endless strikes that even made some State governors made it possible that the State Universities/Tertiary Institutions within no longer joined their counterparts in FG established institutions in such endless strikes?

Is there anyone in Nigeria who will claim to say that they are well paid given what is paid in those countries that use $$$$ ?

Your professors in 1999 could buy flight tickets with their salary, while in 2025 under the evil you support they cannot...

70% of those lecturers are evil personified,Na their karma dey deal with them so ,got not pity to give them,very wicked set of people,so many innocent students boys and girls have seen shege from them

kingsways:
The appalling pay and appalling treatment of lecturers in this country is heartbreaking

Same Profs who rig politicians into power after accepting bribes... They forgot tomorrow is pregnant... Now they are complaining... Shege just start

AntiChristian:
I'm comparing medical staff to ordinary teaching professionals. While I was serving I know I was paid ×4 of what the normal corpers from the commercial and art course are paid.

As I was attached to the associate medical department.

That is nysc.

In the real world, salaries for doctors and other medical professionals are scanty. Ya think we are emigrating for fun?.Or nard and nma and johesu go on strike for fun?

It's even worse in private hospitals self .

nairalanda1:
Yes, because when ASUU went on strike to get improvement in public unis, government kept telling them over the years, no money...

What do you expect?

And many of you think ASUU also goes on strike just for salary. Not so.

And how do you expect someone whose his children are not in where he works wholeheartedly teach his students? Is it even proper for a whole professor not to trust where he works?

If he indeed put all his children in private university and keep blaming for poor salary, it means he is living above his income. Every damn person in Nigeria is poorly paid, we are just managing ourselves ni.

saintruky:
Same Profs who rig politicians into power after accepting bribes... They forgot tomorrow is pregnant... Now they are complaining... Shege just start

Abeg, no believe in that rigging thing.

Most Nigerians will vote for apc or pdp because many of them don't want the uncertainty of change

Honestly, some urgent need to be done about this poor salary of our academy staff. The worse aspect of it, is the meager salary of the
private schools teachers.

2027 is around the corner, if you like go collect bribe and vote for incompetency again. This time around you go turn to Almajiri

yemmit90:
And how do you expect someone whose his children are not in where he works wholeheartedly teach his students? Is it even proper for a whole professor not to trust where he works?

If he indeed put all his children in private university and keep blaming for poor salary, it means he is living above his income. Every damn person in Nigeria is poorly paid, we are just managing ourselves ni.

Like you didn't read what i said

His kids being in private university is the result of neglect of public university

Plus most lecturers kids don't attend the same university their parents teach in, and their parents still do a good job regardless

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For example, let us say we have a lecturer who teaches at FUTO Owerri, and his daughter wants to read pharmacy. As far as I know FUTO does not offer pharmacy. So, she has to go to a different university.

lionshare:
I’m curious are lecturers in private universities better paid compared to those in public universities?

No!
They are paid at par because NUC insist on this. The problem is that some private Universities may owe several months of salary to their staff

But na una dem dey use as returning officers during elections to rig the elections! U can't give us scorpion and except not to be beaten by it too

Port443:
Same professors that are the returning officer for eye neck?

Haha bhad Guy look at what you wrote, seun is watching, they supported the clueless government

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/poor-pay-profs-decry-struggle-with-debts

Where are the people that always compare anything this government does with another country,they should help us tell them to do the same oo,Reno omokri, Na una dey compare fuel price with other countries,but fail to do the comparison of the cost of living.

bixton:
Your likes always like demonizing the President.

Let us face the wholesome truth, has it ever been better since 1999 till before PBAT?!!!!

Has ASUU not been going on strike since this democracy started in Nigeria and has any year gone past without ASUU not embarking on a strike ?

What has always been the major concern and issue for such endless strikes that even made some State governors made it possible that the State Universities/Tertiary Institutions within no longer joined their counterparts in FG established institutions in such endless strikes?

Is there anyone in Nigeria who will claim to say that they are well paid given what is paid in those countries that use $$$$ ?

500k in Jonathan's era can achieve so much more. So it has been better in the past regimes. Even Buhari regime boasts of a far better life for citizens. This regime is poor evil.

IamANigerianMan:
If these people are good in their profession , they should make money from other source.... Prof. Steve and others are from Harvard, he make money on YouTube, they teach Python, JavaScript and other programming languages... They have millions of subscribers... They are part of body that regulates most of this languages.....these our Prof should stop depend on government money, government money is not for salary alone

this is a wrong notion. Do you have to do multiple jobs to survive?in the ideal sense of things, the job that occupies your productive time shud pay your bills. Its not your business to Kno what he earns from another source. If every source is telling him to earn from another source, then where does it end? You re not paying a medical doctor well, tell me y dey won't always give priority to their private practice?

clockwisereport:
Prof Adejumo is not serious. He teaches in a public university while all his children attend private university

Let's take this out of politics. Yes Government needs to do something about their salary but saying they are poor is not true. I know a lot of lecturers who had children at my school, 2,3 kids doing very well, and have children abroad. They might not be rich but they are comfortable, has of then my department was paying over a million per session and I had a friend he and his sister where in SAT. Which means their dad was paying over 2 million per semester.

They should ask for increment but not with lies.

They have crippled primary and secondary schools. Now they have moved to tertiary institutions. Just ten years ago, many top students aspired to be lecturers but that yearning is no more in the current students. University workers have been deliberately pauperised. The politicians prefer to open new universities in their villages every other market day than to focus on existing ones.

This is how you know a country that doesn't value education. Well, I'm aware that Profs were used to rig elections in the past , I will not mention names. So that probably deserve this. This is a case where the sin on a few Profs, is having an adverse effect on the others. God bless Prof. Otti of Abia state. A Prof with a difference.

Jf they are tired of teaching, they should look for jobs in local government secretariats. I hate those entitled professors who don't do nothing but expect everything. I remember one of my lecturers who used Google to teach us and he would just be reading straight from his phone, no editing nothing. It's only in Nigeria that people won't work but will be comparing themselves with people in other countries who actually work. 500k is okay for them, if they don't want it, they should resign and travel to UK where they will work in bread factories. Mtchew

U09ce:
They have crippled primary and secondary schools. Now they have moved to tertiary institutions. Just ten years ago, many top students aspired to be lecturers but that yearning is no more in the current students. University workers have been deliberately pauperised. The politicians prefer to open new universities in their villages every other market day than to focus on existing ones.

Well stated, a lot of young people are ditching the idea of a career in academics, you here slogans like "school na scam" regularly from their lips. Looking at the poor and wretched lifestyle of their lecturers and Profs, they just reject the idea of becoming one.

same professors that supports election malpractices. they never cry reach

geoworldedu:
500k in Jonathan's era can achieve so much more. So it has been better in the past regimes. Even Buhari regime boasts of a far better life for citizens. This regime is poor evil.

Yes, it can achieve so much more in PGEJ's administration but there were striking!!!!!
So what was the reason for the strikes?

Academic knowledge isn't a gateway to wealth. Stop the pity party n get more source of income

Iwe melo ni dangote ka

Brendaniel:
Your professors in 1999 could buy flight tickets with their salary, while in 2025 under the evil you support they cannot...

In 1999 they could afford flight tickets and still were going on strikes from that year till even PGEJ's administration!!!!!

So tell me what has changed with the endless strikes?

bixton:
Yes, it can achieve so much more in PGEJ's administration but there were striking!!!!!
So what was the reason for the strikes?

The reason was due to human's unlimited want. Humans will always demand a better life. They wanted petrol to be #20 per liter. They wanted bag of rice at #2000. They wanted Oshodi to Ajah to be #200. They wanted Japa costs to be #50,000. Even Tinubu was among them that time. He wanted $1 to be #1

But now Tinubu got there and made everything unimaginably worst. The situation has now gone from bad to 'most worst'

I am. Happy this is finally getting the much needed attention. Cos very soon if things don't improve lecturers will begin to sort everything in the university. They are broke. Big name no money

TenQ:
No!
They are paid at par because NUC insist on this. The problem is that some private Universities may owe several months of salary to their staff

You mean the NUC is dictating how much a private institution is to pay their employees? I can understand setting minimum benchmarks, but not a fixed rate. The reason I asked the initial question is: if private university lecturers are better paid, then that gives public lecturers the option of choosing a public university for better pay. Over time, the government will be forced to improve remuneration in order to retain and attract manpower, which is a win-win for all parties.

However, if private lecturers are not exactly well compensated, then the entire tertiary education system — including private institutions — is nothing more than an organized subsidy, perpetually waiting for government handouts. This means quality will always be lacking.

Things where a lot better for university lecturers under Yaradua and Jonathan. Being a former lecturer (Jonathan) he gave them good agreements. Then buhari came refused to implement policies and killed the already gotten ones with inflation.
The came Tinubu's Father of all inflation that rendered what remained of their salary useless.

bixton:
Yes, it can achieve so much more in PGEJ's administration but there were striking!!!!!
So what was the reason for the strikes?

bixton:
In 1999 they could afford flight tickets and still were going on strikes from that year till even PGEJ's administration!!!!!

So tell me what has changed with the endless strikes?

The government that keeps blocking them from going on strike with court orders, that is like saying a child is enjoying better because you keep tying the child's mouth from crying even when you have reduced the child's food...