₦airaland Forum

Nonexisting1:
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

that Google thing you said is shameful. That's not scholarship na

How much do Lecturers earn in USA?

Anything teaching in Nigeria is sadding.

Some Private School still pays their Graduate Teachers very poorly.

I still heard last month where someone was telling me their school in Lagos pays their Graduate Teachers 30K per month

How will such a School Owner make heaven?

No wonder they bill there students with handout, you be hearing "this handout is 10k" if you don't buy it, you won't pass my course..... Hunger do really do dem something.....

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

I disagree with you, he's quite wise to put his children in the private schools, will you place your wards in a system that is decaying and more or less abandoned by government?

Brendaniel:
When I wrote here that a professor in Nigeria cannot afford flight ticket with his salary but a factory worker in the U.S can go on full holiday trip to another country with his salary, some people who are supporting the evil in Aso rock where saying otherwise to justify what the evil has turned Nigeria to.

Just imagine the lowest workers abroad earning more than our professors here in Nigeria and yet they are telling Nigerians that they need to pay tax and price of goods and services like those abroad, also telling us that the evil they support is the best thing to happen to Nigeria

And is it the evil at also rock that made the Nigerian professor unable to afford flight ticket with his salary but a factory worker in the U.S can go on full holiday trip to another country with his salary
Like he was able to afford it before

That serves them right. When next election comes, you will still return the corrupt politician to governance.

nairalanda1:
If he was that good, why were the universities still a mess under his rule.

The day you realize that the good leaders and the bad leaders were not really different, that's the time you will know Nigeria's problem is that all our leaders keep our economy resource dependent.

That's why GEJ and tinubu are bad leaders. No mantter what they did, at the end, oil was still providing most of the monies for our revenue. Same thing for most of our leaders since Gowon. And before Gowon, most of our revenue came from selling raw materials...not using them to make stuff the world needs.

I mean, Shagari had high oil prices...until they crashed and revealled the economy was really like the emperor with no clothes. Same with GEJ...oil crashed in April 2014, and by December 2014, we was borrowing to pay salaries.

You may think I am defending tinubu, but I am not. Our problem always has been dutch disease. When the price of whatever resource we sell is high, we live like kings. But the basis is a flawed basis...and when prices crash, we have our nyash exposed.

And if we don't solve this problem, we would be in serious trobule in the next decades. But all of you guys fight over oil money 24/7. Tinubu continues to borrow to maintain the facade, and he also keeps spending on palliatives and free money. Nothing for diversificaton and industries, and taking hard decisions.

He was better than Tinubu. I mean better than a mile distance. The universities were not where they should be then but were by far better than these. Things are worse now, that's the reality. Jonathan is times ten better than this.

Brendaniel:
Ok, firstly I see you are not in Nigeria, secondly how do you want the solution you are offering to be implemented using the situation that Nigeria is currently in?

Thank you brother. Though not in Nigeria, I have family in Nigeria and constantly coming home. And my prayers for Nigeria to be great again.

Nigeria needs to be regionally divided, with each region having full control of their resources while we have weak central government.

Appointments to regional Assembly of law makers must be on part-time basis. Everyone must have his full time job, so every elected regional law makers should be paid allowance per sitting..ASUU in conjunction with each regional labour Congress should lead this fight to make politics less attractive, they shouldn't demand increased wages in the course of this fight so everyone will join them in the struggle.


To fight corruption, we need a strong and sound institutions. Our institutions are quite weak and enabled corruption.

While I was on my PhD outside Nigeria, my bursary was delayed due some mistakes on my own part. I approached my Prof to borrow me 100 Euro, his response shocked me. His response was where do I get that kind of money? This is a German Prof with many many years as Prof. What he did was to call a departmental meeting because of me and told his colleagues about my predicament.
They all began to contribute to me and at the end of the day, I even got slightly above 100 Euros.
My point they're not rich but they're happy, the working conditions are awesome, they can come to school with bicycles and they will be smiling because the environment is fine. They're not thinking about health needs, standard health care are available for all, they are not afraid of leaving school anytime because of sound security.

I don't know how we got here as a country jaree. It's terrible.

Make una resign na. Na to dey frustrate student una sabi

nairalanda1:
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.

If you say his kids in private schools was a results of negligence of public university, does that also stop lecturers from making personal research that will add meaningful impact in the system? Does it stop them from evolving, rather than teaching obsolete 19th century western myth/curriculum? Besides, is it all his children that are not doing any course offered by the university he works in?

It is a simple logic that you are cunningly trying to defend. You can't impact good knowledge in your students and say your children should not be part of it . This is the kind of shame we stupidly accept as a way of life in Nigeria.

When una don use politics rubbish that prestigious title of Professorship...likes Morris Iwu, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Prof Wole Soyinka....0% integrity.

Why are they complaining? They should stop allowing themselves to be used by people who don't value education to rig elections . . .

Professors.......Election rigging has consequences....very soon AI will deprive una of source of chop chop.

ambale:
🤔, but agberos are living large cos they hijack ballot boxes for Politicians

And Politicians should live large too cos the people are dumb

Who's talking about getting rich in the first place?

Pay people according to their level of service and you're here foaming yenyenyen

I pray you heal quickly

You can join Agbero if you like

I have noticed recently this craze for obtaining PHDs by our young people. while I feel it is good; personally, I prioritize making money over paper certifications

An average Igbo man makes millions weekly even without tertiary education, so of what use is being a PHD holder and yet can't earn a living wage?

if that certification is good as they paint it, why can't they be able to make money legitimately from it? No one gets rich from just earning salaries, even if there are, most of the highest paid salary earners in Nigeria don't even have PHDs.

Ekiti state has the highest number of professors in Nigeria, yet it is one of the poorest and less developed state in Nigeria.

Think about it!

He said, “All my children are in private universities because of strikes.

all of them are greedy. a professor that makes 500,000 naira a month still complaining

even a vice chancellor making 900,000 naira. everyone is greed. you see the problem?? all of their children are in expensive private schools and they are still complaining.

PJ123:
Thank you brother. Though not in Nigeria, I have family in Nigeria and constantly coming home. And my prayers for Nigeria to be great again.

Nigeria needs to be regionally divided, with each region having full control of their resources while we have weak central government.

Appointments to regional Assembly of law makers must be on part-time basis. Everyone must have his full time job, so every elected regional law makers should be paid allowance per sitting..ASUU in conjunction with each regional labour Congress should lead this fight to make politics less attractive, they shouldn't demand increased wages in the course of this fight so everyone will join them in the struggle.


To fight corruption, we need a strong and sound institutions. Our institutions are quite weak and enabled corruption.

While I was on my PhD outside Nigeria, my bursary was delayed due some mistakes on my own part. I approached my Prof to borrow me 100 Euro, his response shocked me. His response was where do I get that kind of money? This is a German Prof with many many years as Prof. What he did was to call a departmental meeting because of me and told his colleagues about my predicament.
They all began to contribute to me and at the end of the day, I even got slightly above 100 Euros.
My point they're not rich but they're happy, the working conditions are awesome, they can come to school with bicycles and they will be smiling because the environment is fine. They're not thinking about health needs, standard health care are available for all, they are not afraid of leaving school anytime because of sound security.

I don't know how we got here as a country jaree. It's terrible.

So who is gonna implement all these you said?

Tinubu?

AbuAeesha:
And is it the evil at also rock that made the Nigerian professor unable to afford flight ticket with his salary but a factory worker in the U.S can go on full holiday trip to another country with his salary
Like he was able to afford it before

Yes, he was able to afford it before the evil in Aso rock came...

Brendaniel:
So who is gonna implement all these you said?

Tinubu?

Obviously not Tinubu.
Tinubu himself is a product of fraudulent system and himself is highly fraudulent and controversial.

mariovito:
Very sad situation.

It is in years to come that we will understand what we are doing to ourselves when there will be few people willing to go the route of becoming academics.

When the dearth of academics and teachers hit us, may be then we will start importing teachers and professors and relying on expatriates.

Since after my first degree in law, I never really had any motivation to go further.

Owo ni Koko!

Bro, that future is here already. It's just that in typical Nigerian fashion, we will live on as if nothing happened. A retired consultant and former VC once mentioned in class that there was a time UCH Ibadan was second best in the whole of the commonwealth.
I doubt Nigeria will ever hire expatriates as teachers, no matter how bad it gets. We don't value certain things that much.

PJ123:
Obviously not Tinubu.
Tinubu himself is a product of fraudulent system and himself is highly fraudulent and controversial.

Then who Sir?

symbianDON:
I quite agree with you that salaries generally need serious review. It is quite depressing for someone who has spent more than 20 years on the job to still not be able to earn 1m as monthly salary. Funny enough, if workers were well paid, corruption would reduce naturally and productivity will increase. There are some private universities, however, that pay decent salaries (AUN for example). I think the government, mostly, doesn't value the efforts of civil and public servants.

Honestly, they seem not to know that increased salaries would translate to increased productivity and also reduce corruption!

Helinuse:
But Professors and “gardners” aren’t the same. One has built value enough to call respect and recognition for himself, the other has not.

They can never be equated. Stop it.

Who supposed to be on debt ? Nobody my brother

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

They earn worse

ADUBA1:
Not true Sir. Pls always do your research properly. APC had always used this line of crude oil prices being above 110 dollars during GEJ tenure but they failed to tell it was for a short period. Pls good can always help us.
Below is the crude oil prices since 1983

1996 15.43 15.54 17.63 19.58 17.94 16.94 17.63 18.29 19.93 21.09 20.20 21.34
1997 21.76 19.38 17.83 16.63 17.23 15.88 15.89 16.19 16.41 17.66 16.83 15.04
1998 13.45 12.17 11.15 11.28 11.13 10.00 10.44 10.20 11.29 11.32 9.64 8.03
1999 8.57 8.60 10.76 12.82 13.92 14.39 16.12 17.58 20.03 19.71 21.35 22.55
2000 23.53 25.48 26.19 23.20 25.58 27.62 26.81 27.91 29.72 29.65 30.36 24.46
2001 24.64 25.27 22.98 23.39 24.06 23.43 22.82 23.08 22.37 18.73 16.40 15.54
2002 15.89 16.93 20.28 22.52 23.51 22.59 23.51 24.76 26.08 25.29 23.38 25.29
2003 28.42 31.85 30.10 25.45 24.95 26.84 27.52 27.94 25.23 26.53 27.21 28.53
2004 30.35 31.21 32.86 33.20 35.73 34.53 36.54 40.10 40.56 46.14 42.85 38.22
2005 40.18 42.19 47.56 47.26 44.03 49.83 53.35 58.90 59.64 56.99 53.20 53.24
2006 57.85 55.69 55.64 62.52 64.40 64.65 67.71 67.21 59.37 53.26 52.42 55.03
2007 49.32 52.94 54.95 58.20 58.90 62.35 69.23 67.77 73.27 79.32 87.16 85.28
2008 87.06 89.41 98.44 106.64 118.55 127.47 128.08 112.83 98.50 73.18 53.67 36.80
2009 35.00 34.14 42.45 45.19 52.67 63.09 60.44 65.28 65.28 69.82 71.99 70.42
2010 72.87 72.74 75.77 78.80 70.91 70.77 71.37 72.07 71.23 76.02 79.20 83.98
2011 85.66 86.69 99.19 108.80 102.46 97.30 97.82 89.00 90.22 92.28 100.18 98.71
2012 98.99 102.04 105.42 103.62 95.57 83.59 86.10 92.53 95.98 92.24 89.64 89.81
2013 95.00 95.01 95.54 94.41 94.75 93.82 101.41 102.96 102.32 96.18 88.70 91.85
2014 89.57 96.86 96.17 96.49 95.74 98.68 96.70 90.72 86.87 78.84 71.07 54.86
2015 43.06 44.35 42.66 49.30 54.38 55.88 47.70 39.98 41.60 42.34 38.19 32.26
2016 27.02 25.52 31.87 35.59 41.02 43.96 40.71 40.46 40.55 45.00 41.65 47.12
2017 48.19 49.41 46.39 47.23 45.19 42.17 43.42 44.96 47.17 49.12 55.19 56.98
2018 62.25 61.18 60.68 63.50 66.16 62.80 67.00 62.64 63.54 65.18 55.65 47.63
2019 48.00 52.60 57.46 63.00 59.73 54.34 56.47 53.63 55.14 53.14 54.96 58.41
2020 56.55 49.66 31.01 15.18 18.02 33.81 37.44 39.37 36.82 36.39 38.25 43.92
2021 49.47 56.44 60.43 59.87 62.80 68.58 70.12 65.68 69.09 78.51 76.45 70.56
2022 80.33 89.41 107.07 103.34 108.29 113.77 100.84 93.76 84.62 86.61 84.43 76.45
2023 75.71 74.32 72.09 77.23 70.14 68.59 74.07 79.78 87.96 84.65 77.46 71.01
2024 72.30 75.02 79.04 83.21 78.21 77.38 79.11 75.00 68.75 70.45 68.24 68.10
2025 73.15 70.10 67.07 62.01 59.91 65.33

Reread my post again

No matter the crude price, the money will never be enough. Unless oil is at 150 dollars or more per barrel.

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

Yes, but not all the private universities.

Thesame professors helps to rig election in nigeria, all workers in nigeria feeling the heat..
You can't compare the stupid minimum wage with the current inflation it's like 1/100.

That is true

nairalanda1:
Reread my post again

No matter the crude price, the money will never be enough. Unless oil is at 150 dollars or more per barrel.

Continue with election rigging. Una go suffer tire