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Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 10:03am On May 21, 2020 |
Xuxu208: Why should he be victimized because one ignoramus is running his mouth on the Internet? Either shows you know nothing about how universities actually operate, or more likely, that you are a liar. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 10:02am On May 21, 2020 |
Xuxu208:TETFUND does not build churches joo. And every single federal university has multiple TETFUND intervention projects.If you cannot mention the name of the university, then you are a big liar. With regards to the labs, absolutely NOTHING has changed and in fact a department had their accreditation withdrawn due to the substandard materials/equipment and teaching. Maybe in your department. Once again, your failure to provide details is a convenient device to hide your lies. Mention the university o! The link did not mention how much is being paid now; care to share it? And no matter how little it is, all I want you to tell me is where it all goes? Why are you now engaging in straw man arguments?I know your kind very well. Rather than accept that they goofed, they would rather shift the goal post endless times. You said Nigerian students pay lots of money. You said it, I didn't. The burden of proof lies on you. Fortunately, you also said you are familiar with the SA system. So why can't you mention how much they pay? Is it because you know it will reveal the stupidity of your position? I mentioned the amount I paid not as a boast but as a way of showing that it is unjustifiable that students who pay way more than I did should be subjected to the same or worse conditions than I experienced. It is unjustifiable for students to pay in the order of $500 for an entire first degree? Really? Can you see how qualified (not!) you are to debate this topic now? Before I give the typical tuition rate in SA why don't you compare the research output as well as the ranking of SA universities to that of Nigerian federal universities and put up your results here?Can you see how you shift the goal post now? And you had the guts to even mention straw man??! I gave a simple request to back up your assertion on fees, but you retreat, to raise the issue of research. I have news for you. If you want to debate the issue of research, I dey here kampe for you. You go tire. But first, unless you're being insincere or worse, a liar, state the average SA tuition. Don't change the topic. Plenty of time for that later, if you want to. I'm done wasting my time talking to someone of your ilk, all you have just proven is that my view of most Nigerian academics as the most despicable sector of the society is completely justified. Yes, the final trick of a fool whose ignorance has been pointed out is to feign disinterest and flee, tails tucked between legs. Next time, don't poke your nose in a matter if all you have to go by are personal experiences. Imagine yourself using one single visit to your alma mater to conclude that TETFUND is doing nothing in universities. Does that even remotely sound sensible to you? Why not educate yourself on an issue if you want to present a commentary on it? |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 9:36am On May 21, 2020 |
Xuxu208:What I have to say to this is: mention the Faculty. There is absolutely no reason not to. Edit: this is the only way we can verify that there is any truth in what you're saying. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 9:29am On May 21, 2020 |
Xuxu208: And how was my argument directed against you when the two main points I made completely refuted your claim that ASUU fights for only remuneration and is never bothered about the state of facilities: 1. TETFUND is a result of ASUU's strike action, and a lifesaver for universities. 2. ASUU fights for 10-100 times more on facilities than on remuneration (to refute your points). Does the fact that I pointed out your ignorance negate those points? Can you go back to your own definition above and say if I addressed the position you are maintaining or not? Last but not least, once again for the umpteenth time, do tell us what your TETFUND has been used for so far as well as where the substantial tuition paid by students end up.This has been answered already jare. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 9:14am On May 21, 2020 |
Xuxu208: I will assume this is a real question from a mind seeking to know. Well, bros, I don't know your alma mater, and more to the point, whether it qualifies to enjoy TETFUND intervention. But walk into any federal university today, and I guarantee that there would be brand new buildings. I also guarantee that at least 80 % of those buildings were funded by TETFUND. Those are the most visible impacts of TETFUND. The labs you keep talking about: they are also regularly upgraded. Also, like I asked before, students now pay lots of money at these varsities (unlike what obtained during my time when I paid less than #2000 for the 5 years I was at school), and yet still nothing has changed, where does all the money go?From the link I sent you, hope you realize that students are not paying lots of money. It is funny that you don't realize that your testimony points to the problem. A country (and graduates) that feel they should boast about getting a first degree at N2000 is a country that has no idea what it is worth. But you said you know what obtains in SA nao; what is the typical tuition rate in SA?? |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 9:03am On May 21, 2020 |
Xuxu208: Ad hominem? Do you even know what ad hominem means, buster? Pointing out ignorance is not an ad hominem attack, especially when my points fully exposed your lack of qualification to debate this issue! I can understand why you have such a dim view of Nigerian lecturers since your own blood was such a corrupt academic. Well, people like him don't belong in this system, and they wouldn't if the FG had taken education seriously enough to attract brilliant youngblood academics who would obsolete his arse asap. In any case, the existence of people like your relative is no reason to assume all lecturers are like him. Can you mention one profession in Nigeria that does not have its fair share of bad eggs? So why should the existence of bad eggs make you pooh pooh the efforts of the majority of academics? Academics who have been in the trenches fighting a recalcitrant FG likely before you were in diapers; many of whom sacrificed a lot just to do this job under the criminal conditions provided by the FG and (former) students like you who think Nigerian youths are paying too much for education, even though you claim to know what obtains in SA? Well, you should try to educate yourself on this topic before attempting to engage people literally spilling blood to defend the tertiary education system. Start from this random page, to understand that students are not "paying lots of money" : https://dailypost.ng/2018/09/27/ASUU-rejects-proposed-hiking-university-fees-fgs-chief-negotiator/ If you are sincere, you have a lot to learn on this subject, even though you think your limited experience and bias give you a good vantage point. If you have real questions, I will answer them, no matter how long it takes. I never mind spending time to educate a sincerely curious mind, but I dislike aggressive ignorance with a passion. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 8:42am On May 21, 2020 |
Xuxu208: So that is the only thing worth addressing in his post? Some of you don't approach issues with an open mind or a willingness to be informed. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 7:39am On May 21, 2020 |
Xuxu208: I must be joking? ASUU only goes on strike for remuneration? No, I'm not, and no, they do not. I have just one word for you: TETFUND. It is one of the most innovative funding strategies for tertiary education anywhere in the world. FYI: It is the result of a bitter ASUU strike, is 100% ASUU's brainchild, and the ONLY reason public tertiary education has not totally collapsed. Peep like you like wailing about imperfections in the system when it is government's irresponsibility that caused those imperfections. The "little" the universities have, for which you are complaining so bitterly, is only due to ASUU's struggles. Please be informed. I've never said ASUU are saints, and on this very site, I have stated my occasional disagreement with the union. But anyone who tries to paint the union as the main problem with tertiary education in Nigeria has to be ret^rded. I don't recall them ever striking about the deplorable conditions of our universities with regards to terrible student housing, classrooms, ancient library book and lab materials and machines, research facilities, etc. Look at the rubbish this one is typing. The ignoramuses are the ones who love to pontificate. Bros, ASUU's strike actions have always been geared towards securing at least 10 to 100 times more for things things you listed than for their remuneration. Get informed so you can make sensible points please. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 5:00pm On May 19, 2020 |
craleonic:Sorry, I don't have the figures here, but they were much closer to 10%. I should make something very clear. My issue is not with IPPIS and the deductions. My main point is that a salary structure in which the monthly gross salary of the most senior professor is less than N600,000 will lead to the eventual destruction of public tertiary education. I just happen to be making this point on a thread about IPPIS, but I have no interest in debating the merits or demerits of IPPIS itself. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 4:53pm On May 19, 2020 |
Alero3Arubi: You don't know what drives their motivations, but you feel it is proper to sit on that lame high horse to accuse some others of greed? No be your fault. Thank God that the worst people like you can do is mouth off. Thank God also that ASUU has the FG by the jugular. Even Abacha could not tame ASUU, so know there is nothing people like you can do, no matter how much you scowl and howl. This system will improve, either you and FG like it or not. ASUU might just appear to be the villain to the ones who don't get it, but that is a fair price to pay. 2 Likes |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 11:57am On May 19, 2020 |
Jaqenhghar:Well, I said "simple", not "easy" Jokes apart, what I have laid out is the simplified version of what needs to be done. It isn't ASUU's job to do it. If FG - because they think it is difficult - fail to do things the right way, then they have no right to blame ASUU. You get what you pay for. FG cannot complain about the quality they are getting if they are not funding the system. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 10:55am On May 19, 2020 |
KingAzubuike: I have seen your posts above, so I don't expect anything good to come out of exchanging words with you. I will therefore limit myself to just this one response to you. I do it because of the thought that maybe you are not a blockhead after all; maybe your bitterness stems from your experiences at the hands of your lecturers (who ironically may be in the system only because of the FG's criminal neglect and underfunding). This one no be "them say". I am a lecturer. I am proud of this fact. I don't do this work because of FG's peanuts, nor do I depend on it. I don't do it because of any expectation of adulation from the majority of students or society. I do it for posterity, and I am extremely proud of my life's work. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 10:35am On May 19, 2020 |
Jaqenhghar: It is not a chicken and egg problem at all. It must start from the government ensuring that top minds are attracted, recruited, and given proper conducive environments to work. They must then put in place mechanisms to ensure productivity and accountability. It is actually as simple as that. The real problem is where the funding would come from, but I don't want to go there. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 10:25am On May 19, 2020 |
xperiencelove:Boy, there is no way you can be a nightmare to me. None. Unfortunately for you, there are still lecturers who are worth their salt in this system (although there won't be any left soon, if you and your principals continue your onslaught) and we are above your small-minded machinations. IPPIS or no IPPIS means nothing to me. I have bigger, much bigger fish to fry. My only concern is that the FG will eventually kill public tertiary education in Nigeria. To that end, I will speak truth to power, inform the ignorant, and then get on with my life. 2 Likes |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 10:19am On May 19, 2020 |
Alero3Arubi: Forget about greed for a second. Let me ask you a question: do you honestly believe the best two students in any graduating class would take a job in which the highest salary net monthly they would ever get after years of service is less than N500k? Please sincerely answer that, then I'll explain things to you. 1 Like |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 10:04am On May 19, 2020 |
Jaqenhghar:You are refusing to see the point I am making. If the FG pays peanuts, it will rarely attract the right kind of people to do the job. Those who do will be under more pressure to cut corners. Like I pointed out. If you give your employer money to manage your business, and the money disappears and he cant account for how he spent it, will you give him more money or will you cut back? This is a totally wrong way to go about funding the most critical sector to national development (yes, I can back that up). You don't respond to malfeasance by withholding funding and crippling the system unless there are other factors at play. You simply enforce the right mechanisms for accountability. Whose fault is it that those mechanisms are not being triggered? I'll make it easy for you: FG. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 9:50am On May 19, 2020 |
jackie3:Please state what the REAL salary of a Nigerian prof on CONUASS 7/1 is. Liar. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 9:42am On May 19, 2020 |
Jaqenhghar: Which point have I ignored? That misappropriation sometimes happens? Where in the world doesn't that happen? It certainly does in every developed country that I know. So why should that prevent the government from properly funding education? If you think the proper thing is for government to under-fund education in the misguided belief that they would then pump up funds after lecturers show themselves to be good boys, then you know nothing about how tertiary education is run around the world. Hint: you get what you pay for. I would humbly suggest you read up a bit on that before commenting further, otherwise your points would be built entirely on your biases. |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 9:26am On May 19, 2020 |
xperiencelove: Do most professors do these, or are you just smoking crack? Mention one profession in Nigeria that doesn't have bad eggs ?! Should the conditions of service of a profession should be tied to the conduct of the bad eggs? 1 Like |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 9:04am On May 19, 2020 |
Jaqenhghar: Those do-nothing professors you mention are not the cause. They are the CONSEQUENCE of FG not properly funding public tertiary education. Can you imagine a typical best-in-class graduate taking up a lecturing job to collect the peanuts on Page 1? Oho? When most don't, the positions are taken by increasingly lower quality scholars, leading to the problems you pointed out. Many of you commenting on this topic do not understand the heinous class warfare that the FG's actions will unleash. Nor do you understand the level of personal sacrifice required for someone worth his salt to stay in the Nigerian university system. 5 Likes |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 8:46am On May 19, 2020 |
obailala: The gross pays are right there on the left half of the table. What has changed is that IPPIS is increasing the deductions (right half). So do you still believe lecturers are fairly remunerated? |
Education / Re: The Salary Of A Nigerian Professor After IPPIS (Pictured) by proffemi: 8:44am On May 19, 2020 |
galaxy2020: I hate it when people who don't know squat mouth off. Did those relatives or friends tell you that the posted figures are wrong? Or are they the type of lecturers who levy students illegally? Why do people try to cling so hard to lies? What has been posted is 100% correct. There are no additional, hidden allowances. What you have on the left half of the table represent the ceiling of lecturers' remunerations for the stated grade levels pre-IPPIS. Please be informed, and stop yarning opata. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: NCDC Bill: Gates Denies Offering Reps Any Incentive by proffemi: 7:50pm On May 18, 2020 |
codemaniacs: Sorry, I don't join issues with folks like you. Have a good life. |
Politics / Re: NCDC Bill: Gates Denies Offering Reps Any Incentive by proffemi: 7:06pm On May 18, 2020 |
ProfAmaben: Only half true. I disagree with the "progress rapidly" part. Tolerating differences in opinion is necessary for peaceful coexistence. But there can be no progress unless each man is capable of weighing his own beliefs, and dropping them when the weight of logical or scientific evidence is against them. To be able to do that, each man must be willing to approach every topic with an open mind, and not build firm convictions until he has sufficiently educated himself. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: NCDC Bill: Gates Denies Offering Reps Any Incentive by proffemi: 6:59pm On May 18, 2020 |
Ade3131: I am replying you because you don't seem like a conspiracy theorist. Your main mistake seems to be in believing that whites are uniformly malevolent when it comes to blacks. My brother, there is no group of humans that think and act monolithically. There are evil white men, but I tell you, I rarely see blacks making the kind of sacrifices I have seen white men make (some first hand). I'm not saying they are better. They have more people at the self-actualization level of Maslow's pyramid, hence more of them are willing to risk all for what they believe in. And for many of them, what they believe in is Africa. Your post is rich in irony, because I was going to use the fight against ebola as an example. Please read up on how Medicin Sans Frontier in particular kept ebola at bay in Central Africa for years. The irony is that it is whites, not blacks that have been most responsible for defending us against ebola over the years. Only in recent times, with larger outbreaks, have the healthcare systems of mosre African countries woken up to the monster MSF was locking the door against for years. Just devote an hour to educating yourself on that subject. Do you know that malaria is no longer a health concern in the western world, yet it is killing thousands in Africa and all you're told is that someone is donating billions to eradicate it whereas, all we need is the intelligence or expertise they used in eradicating it over there.... Or why reinventing the wheel in Africa?For starters, the fact that the diseases of Africa get little attention is a simple result of extreme capitalistic system in most of the Western world. Corporations (Big Pharma corps in this case) follow the money, and there is just no money to be had in solving Africa's problem. Another irony in your post is that Bill Gates, more than any other single human that I know, has been responsible for forcibly pushing Africa's healthcare problems front and center in recent times. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: NCDC Bill: Gates Denies Offering Reps Any Incentive by proffemi: 6:31pm On May 18, 2020 |
Osidazz19: I wasn't disagreeing with you at all. I read, understood and agreed with your post. I try hard not to argue with conspiracy theorists, and had decided not to post here till I saw you post. Your points are what made me decide to shed more light on this Bill Gates for his traducers to better understand the stupidity of their posts. Edit: sorrry, as I read my post again now, the "you" appears to be directed at you . I'll edit. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: NCDC Bill: Gates Denies Offering Reps Any Incentive by proffemi: 6:20pm On May 18, 2020 |
Bill Gates. Most people shouting his name now are ignoramuses who are just learning about him. Those of us who followed his career as he went from fiercely competitive and subtly ruthless nerd to astute, cut-throat businessman know better. We know his dark side very well because we watched in real time as he viciously took down competitors. But we also saw him mature and mellow with age. We saw him throw himself into philanthropy with gusto not seen since perhaps Andrew Carnegie. We saw him single-handedly cause the most momentous sea change in philanthropy in a century when he got other billionaires to commit to spending large chunks of their money on philanthropy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge). He even got the ever thrifty Oracle of Omaha on board! We've seen him throwing himself at the forgotten tropical diseases of Africa and other problems of the developing world. We half-sneered, half-applauded his crazy gimmicky attempts at reinventing the humble toilet bowl so that the third world can move its bowels in a more hygienic manner. For years, we saw him play the Jeremiah, warning us of the inevitable next pandemic. Now the pandemic is here, we see him become the face of the resistance BECAUSE (to those of you ignoramuses) THIS MAN IS NOW THE FACE OF TWENTY FIRST CENTURY PHILANTHROPY. This is the man you think is deserving of so much suspicion and vitriol !?!! May God forgive you. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: NCDC Bill: Gates Denies Offering Reps Any Incentive by proffemi: 5:57pm On May 18, 2020 |
ProfAmaben: You are trying very hard to come across as an elder, but the respect we bestow on elders is not just because of their chronological age. They also need to demonstrate the wisdom we associate with age. For your restraint, I say bravo, but for the points you are making (or the lack thereof), I say "not so much!" 1 Like |
Politics / Re: CUPP: Reps Offered $10 Million Bribe For Passage Of Vaccination Bill by proffemi: 6:22pm On May 06, 2020 |
CanadaOrBust: |
Politics / Re: CUPP: Reps Offered $10 Million Bribe For Passage Of Vaccination Bill by proffemi: 3:11pm On May 06, 2020 |
CanadaOrBust:I hope so o... |
Politics / Re: CUPP: Reps Offered $10 Million Bribe For Passage Of Vaccination Bill by proffemi: 2:00pm On May 06, 2020 |
CanadaOrBust: You can't educate a closed mind. Surely you know that. Or are you just bored? I mean I'm not sure the time you're spending with these dudes will change their minds. You'll just get your bp up a few points for nothing. |
Politics / Re: The Strange Satanism Of Bill Gates - By Reno Omokri by proffemi: 12:22pm On May 05, 2020 |
1StopRudeness: I had no intention of arguing with a conspiracy theorist but felt the need to point out his ignorance to him just because he called someone a dumbass. |
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