Nigerian professors among best paid in the world

[Ikhide]

 "A Nigerian full professor, which according to the report, earns an equivalent of $4, 629 per month in public institutions, is rated the 13th best paid don among the 28 nations."

http://www.punchng.com/education/nigerian-professors-among-best-paid-in-the-world/

 

JAMB question! Are professors in Nigeria underpaid? If not, why not? Discuss!

 

- Ikhide

 

[Abayomi Akinyeye]

Those who engage in discussions on this forum shouldd at least be among the informed and not ordinary market women and men. They should take time to be informed by themselves before coming to the public domain to volunteer any opinion.  As a Professor in Nigeria and who is knowledgible about the stuggle to improve the academic system in the country, i can say withou any equivocation that no Nigerian Professor earns the amount being touted . --- On Tue, 2/5/13, Ikhide <xok...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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[ojod...@gmail.com]

I have not stopped wandering since I read the report yesterday.$4, 629 per month is at least $1, 300 higher than the real figure. I don't know why we need this comparison anyway. Well, thanks, prof, for your intervention. Shalom.

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[Mobolaji Aluko]

My People:

The following table gives the salaries of university lecturers, including Professors - straight from NSIWC. (I added the academic ranks below the table myself.) You can divide the salaries below by 160-165 to get roughly the dollar equivalent.  A Vice-Chancellor (at least in the federal system) earns twice the salary of the highest-paid professor - and that does not include all the perquisites of the office.

And there you have it....no need guessing.....

Bolaji Aluko

Vice-Chancellor, FU Otuoke

Telling the truth, and letting the devil be ashamed

[Anunoby, Ogugua]

Very well. How much then is the average Nigerian professor in a public paid?

The best contradiction of incorrect information is the statement of correct information.

 

oa

[bol...@yahoo.com]

The salary of profs in Nigeria like anywhere else is a spectrum that cuts across different disciplines, specialties and different levels of experience. This figure is an average. Obviously some make more and some make less. It is probably not far off. In the states there are profs who make around 50k/annum and yet others make much more up to 300K/annum.

J

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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 13:41:36 +0000

[Shola Adenekan]

Dear Abayomi,

Ikhide posted an article and asked us to discuss it. People are free to express their opinion; whether they are market women on people with as many degrees as a thermometer.

I'm interested in people's opinion because I'm seriously considering returning home to teach at a university. And I'm sure there are other people who feel the way I do. We need comparisons. This forum encourages debates, academia encourages debates and we should not try to stifle debates just because they make us uncomfortable.

Shalom!

[Ikhide]

Shola,

Thanks for yours. I am not sure where all that venom came from, considering that I did not as much as offer an opinion on the matter, I simply asked for thoughts. The level of defensiveness and the quality of the responses from some quarters is appalling and diminishes the authors.  Apparently, many of these people were raised under savage and primitive circumstances and are incapable of civil discourse. :-D Thankfully, the inimitable double Professor Mobolaji Aluko arrived to rescue them from the squalor of their despair, with real numbers and a response dripping with respect and dignity. Ikhide's job is not done yet, but we are close.

How bodi, my feisty friend? :-D Are you in London? I am thinking of stopping by to do a literary gig in early April, you know, Ikhide goes to Peckham. Interested in sponsoring, participating? Inbox me o, otherwise you go miss ;-)

 

- Ikhide

 

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Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 10:46 AM

[Michael Afolayan]

Folks: Anyone with more than just a casual acquaintance with the situation in the Nigerian academia would agree that Nigerian professors are neither overpaid nor underpaid; if anything, they are just grossly under-served! I have a problem whenever I see people, especially in universities in the U.S., talk down at the academics in Nigeria. I consider it unfair and unconscionable.

I am surrounded by many friends and family members who are current and past professors in Nigeria and I have visited a good number of the current ones in their offices in the last few years, especially in 2011 and 2012. If all they are paid is <$5000.00, which I doubt very much, anyway, my question would be, "why not?" An Assistant Professor makes more than that on the average in the United States. Unlike their counterparts in the West, these people derive little or no benefits from their universities or governments; their classrooms are jam-packed with students - hundreds in number - with no graduate assistants! (Imagine if this were to be the case in the United States - I once taught a foundation class of 213 students and had 8 or 9 graduate assistants, because for every 25 students you were entitled to one graduate assistant); little or no standard healthcare plans; no safety on campus, quite unlike those of us in America who could decide to work in the office 24/7 if we choose to, once it's getting dark, you rush back home in Nigeria for fear of armed robbers on campus or cult groups shooting at you or stabbing you; little or no life insurance benefits - imagine the number of Nigerian professors dropping dead and becoming problems to their families; no Individualized Retirement Accounts (IRA), no "401 (K) retirement accounts; little or no endowments to their chairs; few, if any, locally sponsored grant writing opportunities; no tuition waivers or reductions to tuition of their children or spouses attending the same universities where they are working; limited to no decent, well-equipped offices (except offices of the VCs, which are disproportionately larger than the average president/chancellor's offices in the United States); little or no professional development opportunities, limited to no libraries for research; no consistent power to at least run air-conditioning under the blazing heat of Nigeria; few or no modern computers (desktop or laptop) provided at least every three to five years (it's no exaggeration, but I saw with my own eyes professors who were still using monochrome computers in 2012 or some still writing articles and memos longhand!); and above all, little or no government, university, or private organization's incentives for research! Even if they are paid three or four times what they currently earn, how far can that go in a proverbial pocket perforated with life's essential needs! 

Here is where my heart bleeds for an average Nigerian professor: They continue to be productive; many are prolific writers, publishing papers and writing books, even if locally produced, under these excruciatingly painful working conditions! Many of them spend their own money to attend conferences in as far away as the United States, Canada, Australia, etc. I hosted many in the early to mid-90s, and recall when Professor Falola used to give those who came from Africa money to help defray their expenses for attending some of his conferences. If those of us in the academia in the West (certainly in North America) are subjected to half the stress and unsavory conditions as those in Nigerian universities, we would jelly-fish ourselves into the bottom of the productive deep.

In my humble opinion, the Sahara Reporter's report is a shallow view of a deeper problem. It's fixated with the "crooked load on the head of the man with crooked legs" and could not even notice where it all started from. It fails to look at what actually matters - the source of knowledge production in Black Race's most concentrated centers of learning and it's marginalization and bastardization by the political leadership and consequently the gradual level of its demise. Rather than lampoon Nigerian professors for whatever they earn, they should be pitied for the burden of self-survival they individually carry on their shoulders and the agony of helplessness they suffer day-in-day-out as they see themselves presiding over higher education that used to be the pride of society but has now metamophosed into the biggest joke of all Nigeria's social institutions - right on their watch! We are talking of the gradual death of a sacred institution - education, someone is talking of professors' salaries - leaving the proverbial disease of leprosy untreated but preoccupied with the treatment of mere rshes! Let the big lie die . . .

Michal O. Afolayan

From the Land of Lincoln

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From: Abayomi Akinyeye <yaki...@yahoo.com>

To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world

[Mobolaji Aluko]

My People:

For those who were not able to see the CONUASS salary table given before (in JPEG form), you can download it from:

     http://www.nigerianmuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CONUASS-II-of-March-2011_with_ranks_shown.jpg

Here below is another simplified form of the table, which I presented to the academic staff in my presentation to them last week.    Remember always that it is not how much you get that matters, but how much (after taxes, etc.) you get to keep as discretionary funds.

Moving on....

Among other things, I used the table to emphasise that: 

  (1)  Graduate Assistantship and Assistant Lecturership are not CAREER positions at FU Otuoke, nor should they be elsewhere; 

  (2) you won't be promoted from Grad Asst to Asst Lecturer without an additional degree beyond the Bachelors equivalent, 

  (3) you will NEVER be promoted from Asst Lecturer (who must have an MSc/MA) to Lecturer II without a PhD.

  (4) you have only two years in situ of Grad Asst or Asst Lecturer BEFORE you must go off for an additional higher degree; after acceptance to a graduate program which you must seek yourself, the university will seek ways of funding it as part of staff development.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

_____________________

   CONSOLIDATED UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC SALARY STRUCTURE II (CONUASS II)

                             Per Annum & Per Month

                          Effective 23^rd March 2011

                  (From Salaries & Wages Commission)

 

CONUASS	Designation	Number of Steps	Salary Range Per Annum (Naira)	Salary Range Per Month (Naira)
01	Graduate Assistant	1-6	1,274,177-1,458,567	106,181.41-121,547.25
02	Assistant Lecturer	1-8	1,461,871-1,765,702	121,822.58-147,141.83
03	Lecturer II	1-8	1,660,309-1,990,440	138,359.08-165,870.00
04	Lecturer I	1-9	2,090,795-2,694,810	174,232.91-224,567.50
05	Senior Lecturer	1-13	3,102,305-4,466,306	258,525.41-372,192.16
06	Associate Professor/Reader	1-10	3,779,021-5,015,550	314,918.41-417,962.50
07	Professor	1-10	4,591,149-6,030,963	382,595.75-502,580.25

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

[Segun]

Here we go again. Where in Nigeria in the Federal Universities a full Professor earns such a colossal salary? Not the Nigeria that I am pretty conversant with.  

Some of the government agents are now at work to mislead the public about the salary a full Professor earns monthly. Whose interest are they serving? What kind of faulty propaganda is this? What do they stand to gain by deceiving the public? 

If these agents of government don't have anything to do,  they should engage in research that will add values to academia. 

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi. 

Sent from my iPhone

[Segun]

Mike:

You have given a concise assessment of what happens in Nigerian Universities and their professors. You have told the truth and nothing but the truth. 

For those of us who made the sacrifice to come home since the 80s to date,  we go through harrowing experiences. The teaching load in a poor environment with decayed infrastructure make a nonsense of the meager salary of professors the agents of government blow out of proportion. Mike has adequately put things in their real perspectives. 

Let the truth be told that professors do not earn the salary purported by the government errand agents. 

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi. 

Sent from my iPhone

[Mobolaji Aluko]

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi:

You have made two broadsides in a row about my contribution on this matter already.  I find them both disingenuous, and I am not sure what your intentions are.  For example you wrote that "Let the truth be told that professors do not earn the salary purported by the government errand agents."  I don't know who those "government errand agents" are, and if you are referring to me, you should absolutely respect yourself.

Moving on....

I have given to you the salaries that I, as VIce-Chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, program as payment to ALL the academic levels that I stated in the table below.  CONUASS (Consolidated salary) includes:

   - basic salary

   - peculiar salary (roughly 3/10 of total consolidated)

   - rent (roughly 1/10 of total consolidated)

and they are all paid together.

Could you tell this assembly how much you earn consolidated at Akungba?

Thanks.

Bolaji Aluko

PS:  I have attached the earlier 2009 Wages commission circular.

[Olayinka Agbetuyi]

I totally agree with you that fact and figures are the best way to resolve contentious issues whenever and wherever possible.  Literate minds should then be allowed to make up their minds.  Except there are doubts about the authenticity and sources of the figures.  Does anyone doubt the figures?

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world

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[Nkolika Ebele]

Prof Aluko,

Compliments. Though I disagree with Prof Ogungbemi's use of the insulting phrase "government errand agents" because that is one thing you are not. I am even surprised  that you still find time to dig out all these facts you post in this  forum, but the Prof  is right when he claims that not every academic staff earns what you have listed. Just recently our ASUU went round the various federal Universities to find out what they are paid, because we observed that over the years we have been underpaid  and not too long ago we got a little raise. Professors at UNN complained too that  they receive less. So I have this feeling that all the Universities do not pay the same,  as I learnt that a percentage of the  of the salary  is generated internally, this might explain the differences. I  stand to be corrected but I am sure the salaries paid in some Universities are higher than what is paid in others.

Nkolika 

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Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 3:08 PM

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

A fellow alumni ignoramus from the Middle East would like to know how
much Nigerian Professors pay in taxes....

On Feb 10, 4:36 pm, Olayinka Agbetuyi <yagbet...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I totally agree with you that fact and figures are the best way to resolve contentious issues whenever and wherever possible.  Literate minds should then be allowed to make up their minds.  Except there are doubts about the authenticity and sources of the figures.  Does anyone doubt the figures?
>

> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:08:06 +0100
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world

> From: aluk...@gmail.com

> To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
>
> Prof. Segun Ogungbemi:
> You have made two broadsides in a row about my contribution on this matter already.  I find them both disingenuous, and I am not sure what your intentions are.  For example you wrote that "Let the truth be told that professors do not earn the salary purported by the government errand agents."  I don't know who those "government errand agents" are, and if you are referring to me, you should absolutely respect yourself.
>
> Moving on....
>
> I have given to you the salaries that I, as VIce-Chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, program as payment to ALL the academic levels that I stated in the table below.  CONUASS (Consolidated salary) includes:
>
>    - basic salary   - peculiar salary (roughly 3/10 of total consolidated)   - rent (roughly 1/10 of total consolidated)
> and they are all paid together.
>
> Could you tell this assembly how much you earn consolidated at Akungba?
> Thanks.
>
> Bolaji Aluko
> PS:  I have attached the earlier 2009 Wages commission circular.
>

> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Segun <Seguno2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Here we go again. Where in Nigeria in the Federal Universities a full Professor earns such a colossal salary? Not the Nigeria that I am pretty conversant with.  Some of the government agents are now at work to mislead the public about the salary a full Professor earns monthly. Whose interest are they serving? What kind of faulty propaganda is this? What do they stand to gain by deceiving the public?
>
> If these agents of government don't have anything to do,  they should engage in research that will add values to academia. Prof. Segun Ogungbemi.
> Sent from my iPhone
>

> On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <aluk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My People:
>
> The following table gives the salaries of university lecturers, including Professors - straight from NSIWC. (I added the academic ranks below the table myself.) You can divide the salaries below by 160-165 to get roughly the dollar equivalent.  A Vice-Chancellor (at least in the federal system) earns twice the salary of the highest-paid professor - and that does not include all the perquisites of the office.
>
> And there you have it....no need guessing.....
>

> Bolaji AlukoVice-Chancellor, FU OtuokeTelling the truth, and letting the devil be ashamed

>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:41 PM,  <ojodum...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have not stopped wandering since I read the report yesterday.$4, 629 per month is at least $1, 300 higher than the real figure. I don't know why we need this comparison anyway. Well, thanks, prof, for your intervention. Shalom.
>

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>  in the world
> Those who engage in discussions on this forum shouldd at least be among the informed and not ordinary market women and men. They should take time to be informed by themselves before coming to the public domain to volunteer any opinion.  As a Professor in Nigeria and who is knowledgible about the stuggle to improve the academic system in the country, i can say withou any equivocation that no Nigerian Professor earns the amount being touted .
>

> --- On Tue, 2/5/13, Ikhide <xoki...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> From: Ikhide <xoki...@yahoo.com>
>
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world
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> To: "Toyin Falola" <USAAfric...@googlegroups.com>, "Ederi" <Ed...@yahoogroups.com>
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> Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 10:49 AM
>
>  "A Nigerian full professor, which according to the report, earns an equivalent of $4, 629 per month in public institutions, is rated the 13th best paid don among the 28 nations."
>

> http://www.punchng.com/education/nigerian-professors-among-best-paid-...

>
> JAMB question! Are professors in Nigeria underpaid? If not, why not? Discuss!
>
> - Ikhide
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[Mobolaji Aluko]

Nkolika:

Compliments to you too.

I will not be deterred either by the snide insults of Prof. Ogungbemi - for whatever reason he makes them - or the alleged "weight" of my office as a VIce-Chancellor from informing this forum of what I know from officialdom should be the OFFICIAL salaries of university at the FEDERAL level.  The Wages Commission circular that I forwarded earlier - and I have now attached another one for CONTISS Consolidated Tertiary Institution Salary Structure for non-academic staff  - clearly states "for federal universities".   

ALL staff in my university at Otuoke are programmed with these salaries, period.

Whether STATE or PRIVATE universities pay higher or lower is another matter ENTIRELY - and I do not expect them to pay the same as federal universities - some will pay higher, some will pay lower.

If many existing FEDERAL universities do not pay these MANDATED salaries, that may be because of LEGACY problems that arose when these INCREASED salaries were announced without COMMENSURATE increase in TOTAL personnel funding to the universities by the federal government.  So I can imagine that local negotiations would arise as to whether some staff should be FIRED in order to be able to pay the new mandated higher salary levels, or the old levels (or slightly increased levels) were used for a period of time while retaining the level of staffing.  Such negotiations are standard international practice: higher salary and fewer workers, or retained lower (or slightly increased) salary and same number of workers.  But that does not remove the mandated federal salaries as benchmark salaries in our university system.

And there you have it. Let's have a civil discourse, not insinuations and innuendoes.

Bolaji Aluko

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Do Nigerian profesors pay income tax? - a fellow allumnus (Middle East
ignoramus) asks

On Feb 10, 4:36 pm, Olayinka Agbetuyi <yagbet...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I totally agree with you that fact and figures are the best way to resolve contentious issues whenever and wherever possible.  Literate minds should then be allowed to make up their minds.  Except there are doubts about the authenticity and sources of the figures.  Does anyone doubt the figures?
>

> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:08:06 +0100
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world

> From: aluk...@gmail.com

> To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
>
> Prof. Segun Ogungbemi:
> You have made two broadsides in a row about my contribution on this matter already.  I find them both disingenuous, and I am not sure what your intentions are.  For example you wrote that "Let the truth be told that professors do not earn the salary purported by the government errand agents."  I don't know who those "government errand agents" are, and if you are referring to me, you should absolutely respect yourself.
>
> Moving on....
>
> I have given to you the salaries that I, as VIce-Chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, program as payment to ALL the academic levels that I stated in the table below.  CONUASS (Consolidated salary) includes:
>
>    - basic salary   - peculiar salary (roughly 3/10 of total consolidated)   - rent (roughly 1/10 of total consolidated)
> and they are all paid together.
>
> Could you tell this assembly how much you earn consolidated at Akungba?
> Thanks.
>
> Bolaji Aluko
> PS:  I have attached the earlier 2009 Wages commission circular.
>

> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Segun <Seguno2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Here we go again. Where in Nigeria in the Federal Universities a full Professor earns such a colossal salary? Not the Nigeria that I am pretty conversant with.  Some of the government agents are now at work to mislead the public about the salary a full Professor earns monthly. Whose interest are they serving? What kind of faulty propaganda is this? What do they stand to gain by deceiving the public?
>
> If these agents of government don't have anything to do,  they should engage in research that will add values to academia. Prof. Segun Ogungbemi.
> Sent from my iPhone
>

> On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <aluk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My People:
>
> The following table gives the salaries of university lecturers, including Professors - straight from NSIWC. (I added the academic ranks below the table myself.) You can divide the salaries below by 160-165 to get roughly the dollar equivalent.  A Vice-Chancellor (at least in the federal system) earns twice the salary of the highest-paid professor - and that does not include all the perquisites of the office.
>
> And there you have it....no need guessing.....
>

> Bolaji AlukoVice-Chancellor, FU OtuokeTelling the truth, and letting the devil be ashamed

>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:41 PM,  <ojodum...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have not stopped wandering since I read the report yesterday.$4, 629 per month is at least $1, 300 higher than the real figure. I don't know why we need this comparison anyway. Well, thanks, prof, for your intervention. Shalom.
>

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> Those who engage in discussions on this forum shouldd at least be among the informed and not ordinary market women and men. They should take time to be informed by themselves before coming to the public domain to volunteer any opinion.  As a Professor in Nigeria and who is knowledgible about the stuggle to improve the academic system in the country, i can say withou any equivocation that no Nigerian Professor earns the amount being touted .
>

> --- On Tue, 2/5/13, Ikhide <xoki...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: Ikhide <xoki...@yahoo.com>
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> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world
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> To: "Toyin Falola" <USAAfric...@googlegroups.com>, "Ederi" <Ed...@yahoogroups.com>
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> Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 10:49 AM
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>  "A Nigerian full professor, which according to the report, earns an equivalent of $4, 629 per month in public institutions, is rated the 13th best paid don among the 28 nations."
>

> http://www.punchng.com/education/nigerian-professors-among-best-paid-...

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> JAMB question! Are professors in Nigeria underpaid? If not, why not? Discuss!
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[Olayinka Agbetuyi]

Yes, Nigerian professors pay income tax because they are enrolled in the PAYE tax system like other puplic and private organizations.

> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:40:08 -0800

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[Olayinka Agbetuyi]

I think this development means ASUU has more work to do to show it is a credible organisation for ALL its members in Nigeria.  Prof.  Aluko has indeed done his colleagues (teaching professionals in the Nigerian universities) a great service.

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[OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU]

Impressive summation:

If many existing FEDERAL universities do not pay these MANDATED
salaries, that may be because of LEGACY problems that arose when these
INCREASED salaries were announced without COMMENSURATE increase in
TOTAL personnel funding to the universities by the federal government.
So I can imagine that local negotiations would arise as to whether
some staff should be FIRED in order to be able to pay the new mandated
higher salary levels, or the old levels (or slightly increased levels)
were used for a period of time while retaining the level of staffing.
Such negotiations are standard international practice: higher salary
and fewer workers, or retained lower (or slightly increased) salary
and same number of workers. But that does not remove the mandated
federal salaries as benchmark salaries in our university system.

Mobolaji Aluko

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>> I have not stopped wandering since I read the report yesterday.$4, 629
>> per
>> month is at least $1, 300 higher than the real figure. I don't know why
>> we
>> need this comparison anyway. Well, thanks, prof, for your intervention.
>> Shalom.
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>> withou any equivocation that no Nigerian Professor earns the amount being
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[Kale Oyedeji]

I made a simple enquiry from my friend at one of the Federal universities in Nigeria about the salary structure; he confirmed that the table presented by Bọlaji was the one been used by his university.

 

‘Kalẹ Oyedeji

[Mobolaji Aluko]

My People:

Cornellius Hamelberg asked whether "Nigerian professors pay income tax" and Olayinka Agbetuyi responded partially-correctly "that they are enrolled in the PAYE tax system like other public and private organizations."    The next un-asked question - which I wish to quickly respond -  of course is "how much do Nigerian professors pay as income tax?" - and the simple answer is "they pay from the same rate table like everyone else, depending on their total income and allowances.

In doing that, I will use  EKITI STATE UNIVERSITY CONUASS data - old salary vs. new salary, old tax vs. new tax  -  that I had to investigate on behalf of fhe then new Governor Fayemi in November 2010 when he INSISTED on tripling or double-quadrupling the university staff's tax rates from what he considered was a largely ridiculous sub-3% rate.   We will also see that in this particular case, married men, single men and women used to pay slightly different tax rates.

TOTAL EMOLUMENT AND TAX TABLE FOR ACADEMIC STAFF S/N CONUASS GRADE STEP OLD TOTAL OLD TAX OLD TAX FEM. OLD TAX RATE % OLD TAX RATE % NEW TOTAL NEW TAX NEW TAX FEMALE NEW TAX RATE % NEW TAX RATE%       EMOLUMENT MARRIED MEN /SINGLE MALE MARRIED MEN FEM/SINGLE ML EMOLUMENT MARRIED MEN  AND SINGLE MALE MARRIED MEN FEM & SINGLE ML                           1 1 1 849,203.79 10,211.28 11,711.28 1.20 1.38 1,288,836.89 118,640.04 120,142.44 9.21 9.32   1 6 972,926.84 13,339.80 15,339.84 1.37 1.58 1,476,720.74 137,623.56 139,123.56 9.32 9.42 2 2 1 975,435.10 13,719.96 15,720.00 1.41 1.61 1,480,381.70 137,978.52 139,478.52 9.32 9.42   2 8 1,179,364.89 19,929.24 21,929.28 1.69 1.86 1,790,038.29 174,438.24 174,438.24 9.74 9.74 3 3 1 1,109,177.66 18,364.44 20,364.48 1.66 1.84 1,683,177.16 161,791.08 163,291.08 9.61 9.70   3 8 1,330,835.65 25,989.96 27,990.00 1.95 2.10 2,019,714.35 201,407.16 202,907.16 9.97 10.05 4 4 1 1,399,101.25 25,717.20 28,205.16 1.84 2.02 2,122,902.15 213,449.40 214,949.40 10.05 10.13   4 9 1,804,937.37 41,122.80 43,622.76 2.28 2.42 2,738,924.40 285,931.20 287,431.20 10.44 10.49 5 5 1 2,068,023.70 36,553.20 39,053.16 1.77 1.89 3,163,811.90 334,830.60 336,330.60 10.58 10.63   5 13 2,983,306.12 64,581.60 66,760.44 2.16 2.24 4,533,741.72 510,510.72 512,010.72 11.26 11.29 6 6 1 2,514,790.82 45,903.60 48,403.56 1.83 1.92 3,826,064.12 416,036.52 417,536.52 10.87 10.91   6 10 3,344,398.98 79,632.72 82,132.68 2.38 2.46 5,085,962.38 564,420.00 565,920.00 11.10 11.13 7 7 1 3,000,257.26 53,972.40 56,472.36 1.80 1.88 4,644,485.26 513,493.08 514,993.08 11.06 11.09   7 12 4,156,732.89 108,281.04 110,804.88 2.60 2.67 6,432,670.89 724,568.76 726,164.76 11.26 11.29

The above table was BEFORE a new Personal Income Tax Act  (PITA) made publicly available in January 2012, but with an effective date of 14 June 2011.

So let me state the facts as I now know them:

1.  in Nigeria, taxes on ALL income (domestic and foreign-earned) are expected to be paid to the STATE of domicile of the Nigerian.

2.  the new PITA (Personal Income tax act) figures are as follows:

First taxable income N300,000 taxed at 7% (max. tax: N21,000)

Next N300,000 taxed at 11% (max tax: N33,000)

Next N500,000 taxed at 15% (max tax: N75,000)

Next N500,000 taxed at 19% (max tax: N95,000)    [Cumulative tax so far for N1,600,000 per annum salary is N224,000 or 14%)

Next NI, 600,000 taxed at 21% (max tax: N126,000) [Cumulative tax so far for a N3,200,000 per annum salary is N350,000 or 10.9%)

Above N3, 200,000 taxed at 24%.

So (without ANY allowances)

     - a N4,000,000 lecturer is taxed at 13.55% effective rate.

     - a N5,000,000 professor is taxed at 15.64% effective rate.

     - a N6,000,000 professor  would pay  17% effective rate.

But what constitutes "taxable income" (total income - allowances) makes the EFFECTIVE tax rate to be quite different from the tax rates above, from zero percent to maybe no more than 10%.     Most often too, other earnings are NEVER captured in this taxation.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

Calling it as it is

PS1:  By the way, there are other UNEARNED allowances that many lecturers and/or staff, including in the medical or health profession - get - Hazard, Rural, Call Duty, Shift, etc.

PS2: Kale Oyedeji wrote:

QUOTE

I made a simple enquiry from my friend at one of the Federal universities in Nigeria about the salary structure; he confirmed that the table presented by Bọlaji was the one been used by his university.

 

‘Kalẹ Oyedeji

UNQUOTE

The guy trusts me; just that he wanted to verify! :-)

[Professor Ayandiji Daniel Aina]

We use the same table as well in Adelele University, Ede, a recently chartered private university. I will be surprised if any staff in any of the federal universities can produce evidence that the table (for which many agitated payment of salary arrears dating to date of agreement approval) is yet to be implemented.

Professor Ayandiji Daniel Aina, PhD

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Adeleke University,

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On Feb 12, 2013, at 5:55 AM, Kale Oyedeji <koye...@morehouse.edu> wrote:

I made a simple enquiry from my friend at one of the Federal universities in Nigeria about the salary structure; he confirmed that the table presented by Bọlaji was the one been used by his university.

 

‘Kalẹ Oyedeji

 

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Sent: 10 February 2013 10:08

To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world

 

 

 

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi:

 

You have made two broadsides in a row about my contribution on this matter already.  I find them both disingenuous, and I am not sure what your intentions are.  For example you wrote that "Let the truth be told that professors do not earn the salary purported by the government errand agents."  I don't know who those "government errand agents" are, and if you are referring to me, you should absolutely respect yourself.

 

Moving on....

 

I have given to you the salaries that I, as VIce-Chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, program as payment to ALL the academic levels that I stated in the table below.  CONUASS (Consolidated salary) includes:

 

   - basic salary

   - peculiar salary (roughly 3/10 of total consolidated)

   - rent (roughly 1/10 of total consolidated)

 

and they are all paid together.

 

Could you tell this assembly how much you earn consolidated at Akungba?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

Bolaji Aluko

 

PS:  I have attached the earlier 2009 Wages commission circular.

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Segun <Segun...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Here we go again. Where in Nigeria in the Federal Universities a full Professor earns such a colossal salary? Not the Nigeria that I am pretty conversant with.  

Some of the government agents are now at work to mislead the public about the salary a full Professor earns monthly. Whose interest are they serving? What kind of faulty propaganda is this? What do they stand to gain by deceiving the public? 

If these agents of government don't have anything to do,  they should engage in research that will add values to academia. 

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alu...@gmail.com> wrote:

 

My People:

 

The following table gives the salaries of university lecturers, including Professors - straight from NSIWC. (I added the academic ranks below the table myself.) You can divide the salaries below by 160-165 to get roughly the dollar equivalent.  A Vice-Chancellor (at least in the federal system) earns twice the salary of the highest-paid professor - and that does not include all the perquisites of the office.

 

And there you have it....no need guessing.....

 

 

 

Bolaji Aluko

Vice-Chancellor, FU Otuoke

Telling the truth, and letting the devil be ashamed

 

 

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:41 PM, <ojod...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have not stopped wandering since I read the report yesterday.$4, 629 per month is at least $1, 300 higher than the real figure. I don't know why we need this comparison anyway. Well, thanks, prof, for your intervention. Shalom.

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world

Those who engage in discussions on this forum shouldd at least be among the informed and not ordinary market women and men. They should take time to be informed by themselves before coming to the public domain to volunteer any opinion.  As a Professor in Nigeria and who is knowledgible about the stuggle to improve the academic system in the country, i can say withou any equivocation that no Nigerian Professor earns the amount being touted .

--- On Tue, 2/5/13, Ikhide <xok...@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Ikhide <xok...@yahoo.com> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world To: "Toyin Falola" <USAAfric...@googlegroups.com>, "Ederi" <Ed...@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 10:49 AM

"A Nigerian full professor, which according to the report, earns an equivalent of $4, 629 per month in public institutions, is rated the 13th best paid don among the 28 nations."

http://www.punchng.com/education/nigerian-professors-among-best-paid-in-the-world/

JAMB question! Are professors in Nigeria underpaid? If not, why not? Discuss!   - Ikhide

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VC Aina:

In that case, Colleague,  the professors in Federal Universities on this forum should speak up.  I am positive that those at Federal University Otuoke have it implemented.  I make sure that I give a copy of the CONUASS table to each hiree who asks about the salary scales and why he or she is at a particular level.

I recently gave a breakdown of the federal budget - capital, overhead, personnel -  agreed for FU Otuoke (which essentially is all what we have now) at a Senate meeting, and some professors attending said that they had never seen the budget of their university before then.  "Maybe you were not sufficiently interested," I retorted...  "I believe that when you know what your father earns, that will curtail your requests", I further stated.

Sunshine to institutional finances is the best antiseptic/antidote to rumor and unreasonable agitation.  I have asked that to EVERY proposal put before me by any lecturer be included FINANCIAL implications and a Plan B.  Then I ask "How much have you brought in so far, and how much is this proposal likely to bring into the university?"

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

[dennis ityavyar]

I am a professor in d University of Jos for over 10 years and have reached the bar of Professorial salary scale y salary is not near what is being paid in Bolajis University. I have never being even paid up to N500k any month. I really doubt if any university. Around here is payin professor up to $4000 per month.

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[amomo...@yahoo.com]

Prof. Aluko,
You and l had a debate over this matter about 7 months ago. I am surprised it is coming up again for one main reason: you conceded then, that no university Professor, apart from Vice Chancellors, earn more than USD3,000 or so, in Nigerian universities.
However, Ikhide is the author of all this, qouting from a report that looks obviously dubious and with self serving agenda. How can Nigerian Professors ever be said to be among the best paid in the world? I truly wonder.
Ikhide wants to use that dubious report to make another point: that university lecturers in Nigeria are earning fat salaries that they do not deserve. Why? Because Ikhide has consistently written off our lecturers, students and the universities. Only an imbecile will not see through the smokescreen and subtext to this. At every available opportunity, Ikhide has addressed us in derisively language. To him, good pedagogy and scholarship in Nigerian universities ended with when he graduated.
But it is a free world and l cannot hold him liable for his views.
The current exchanges are sterile if not trite. Ogungbemi, Nkolika and Aina need not join issues over what is so apparent and need no further evidence or advocate.
Abu

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From: Mobolaji Aluko <alu...@gmail.com>

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:44:14 +0100

[Mobolaji Aluko]

Prof Dennis Ityavya:

Please let us be specific, Professor. How much were your gross and
after-tax salaries in

(1) December 2012
(2) December 2010
(3) December 2005
(4) December 2002
(5) Drcember 1999

Please know that I don't expect you to know them offhead. Please ask
your Establishment Office to provide you the historical data a - or
kindly consult your monthly payslip..

I thank you.


Bolaji Aluko

PS: This is NOT to doubt your assertion. I qm aware that unfunded
mandates dot the Nigerian bureaucratic space. But a salary is a
salary, even if unpaid.

On 2/12/13, dennis ityavyar <den...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am a professor in d University of Jos for over 10 years and have reached
> the bar of Professorial salary scale y salary is not near what is being paid
> in Bolajis University. I have never being even paid up to N500k any month. I
> really doubt if any university. Around here is payin professor up to $4000
> per month.
> Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
>

>> table presented by Bọlaji was the one been used by his university. ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ‘Kalẹ Oyedeji****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *From:* usaafric...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
>> usaafric...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Mobolaji Aluko
>>
>> *Sent:* 10 February 2013 10:08
>> *To:* <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
>> usaafric...@googlegroups.com
>> *Subject:* Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among
>> best paid in the world****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Prof. Segun Ogungbemi:****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> You have made two broadsides in a row about my contribution on this
>> matter
>> already. I find them both disingenuous, and I am not sure what your
>> intentions are. For example you wrote that "Let the truth be told that
>> professors do not earn the salary purported by the government errand
>> agents." I don't know who those "government errand agents" are, and if
>> you

>> are referring to me, you should absolutely respect yourself.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Moving on....****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> I have given to you the salaries that I, as VIce-Chancellor of the
>> Federal
>> University Otuoke, program as payment to ALL the academic levels that I

>> stated in the table below. CONUASS (Consolidated salary) includes:****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> - basic salary****
>>
>> - peculiar salary (roughly 3/10 of total consolidated)****
>>
>> - rent (roughly 1/10 of total consolidated)****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> and they are all paid together.****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> Could you tell this assembly how much you earn consolidated at

>> Akungba?***
>> *
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Thanks.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Bolaji Aluko****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> PS: I have attached the earlier 2009 Wages commission circular.
>>

>> ****

>>
>> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Segun < <Segun...@yahoo.com>

>> Segun...@yahoo.com> wrote:****

>>
>> Here we go again. Where in Nigeria in the Federal Universities a full
>> Professor earns such a colossal salary? Not the Nigeria that I am pretty

>> conversant with. ****

>>
>> Some of the government agents are now at work to mislead the public about
>> the salary a full Professor earns monthly. Whose interest are they
>> serving?
>> What kind of faulty propaganda is this? What do they stand to gain by

>> deceiving the public? ****

>>
>> If these agents of government don't have anything to do, they should

>> engage in research that will add values to academia. ****
>>
>> Prof. Segun Ogungbemi. ****
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone****

>>
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Mobolaji Aluko < <alu...@gmail.com>

>> alu...@gmail.com> wrote:****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> My People:****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> The following table gives the salaries of university lecturers, including
>> Professors - straight from NSIWC. (I added the academic ranks below the
>> table myself.) You can divide the salaries below by 160-165 to get
>> roughly
>> the dollar equivalent. A Vice-Chancellor (at least in the federal
>> system)
>> earns twice the salary of the highest-paid professor - and that does not

>> include all the perquisites of the office.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> And there you have it....no need guessing.....****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Bolaji Aluko****
>>
>> Vice-Chancellor, FU Otuoke****
>>
>> Telling the truth, and letting the devil be ashamed****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ****

>>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:41 PM, <

>> <ojod...@gmail.com>ojod...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:****

>>
>> I have not stopped wandering since I read the report yesterday.$4, 629
>> per
>> month is at least $1, 300 higher than the real figure. I don't know why
>> we
>> need this comparison anyway. Well, thanks, prof, for your intervention.

>> Shalom.****
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.****
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *From: *Abayomi Akinyeye < <yaki...@yahoo.com>yaki...@yahoo.com> ****
>>
>> *Sender: * <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
>> usaafric...@googlegroups.com ****
>>
>> *Date: *Wed, 6 Feb 2013 00:49:14 -0800 (PST)****
>>
>> *To: *< <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
>> usaafric...@googlegroups.com>****
>>
>> *ReplyTo: * <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
>> usaafric...@googlegroups.com ****
>>
>> *Subject: *Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among
>> best paid in the world****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> Those who engage in discussions on this forum shouldd at least be among
>> the informed and not ordinary market women and men. They should take time
>> to be informed by themselves before coming to the public domain to
>> volunteer any opinion. As a Professor in Nigeria and who is knowledgible
>> about the stuggle to improve the academic system in the country, i can
>> say
>> withou any equivocation that no Nigerian Professor earns the amount being
>> touted .
>>
>>

>> --- On *Tue, 2/5/13, Ikhide <
>> <xok...@yahoo.com>xok...@yahoo.com>*wrote:

>> ****

>>
>>
>> From: Ikhide < <xok...@yahoo.com>xok...@yahoo.com>
>> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid
>> in the world
>> To: "Toyin Falola" < <USAAfric...@googlegroups.com>
>> USAAfric...@googlegroups.com>, "Ederi" < <Ed...@yahoogroups.com>
>> Ed...@yahoogroups.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 10:49 AM****
>>
>> "A Nigerian full professor, which according to the report, earns an
>> equivalent of $4, 629 per month in public institutions, is rated the 13th

>> best paid don among the 28 nations."****
>>
>>
>> <http://www.punchng.com/education/nigerian-professors-among-best-paid-in-the-world/>
>> http://www.punchng.com/education/nigerian-professors-among-best-paid-in-the-world/
>> ****
>>
>> ****

>>
>> JAMB question! Are professors in Nigeria underpaid? If not, why not?

>> Discuss!****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> - Ikhide****
>>
>> ****

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[Biko Agozino]

Prof Momoh,

Make you no mind people who are jealous of Nigerian professors. Just ask them to apply for jobs in Nigerian universities if they want to follow you enjoy the fruits of the bitter struggles that produced those gains. They will be appointed if they are qualified!

But VC Aluko, take am easy with your lecturers o. Make you no dey talk down to them like say they be your pickin. Wetin? How can you tell professors who are negotiating for a better pay package that once you know how much your father earns, you will moderate your demands? Are you their father or is the university their mother? That came across as patronizing.

Secondly, why do you make fundraising the precondition for awarding seed grants for research to your faculty? Your policy of asking for plan B and asking how much revenue proposed projects will bring in to the university and how much the proposer had already raised is baffling to anyone who has worked in a research university where the scientific merit and the wider impact on the society are the highest criteria for the award of grants, not revenue generation.

The last time I visited the University of Otuoke (Rat Nyash, whereas it was originally and more meaningfully called Otueke, Eke Market, as in Otu Onicha) website, the research window was empty. I suggest that you get your faculty together and start awarding competitive grants for theoretical research if they do not have the labs for experiments yet. As you know, such theoretical research earns the greatest accolade in every field and long after the revenue generated by poultry farms have been embezzled, the original contributions and the international prizes the theoretical contributions will attract will remain the legacies of your institution forever. Most Nobel Prizes are awarded for theoretical contributions rather than for applied research. Go figure.

To Nigerian professors, Solidarity Greetings!

Biko

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From: "amomo...@yahoo.com" <amomo...@yahoo.com>
To: Toyin Falola <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 7:37

[amomo...@yahoo.com]

Dear Ikhide,
I can never abuse or insult you over any issue. It is not my style and l frown on those who use it as substitute for debate.
In what l wrote l did not abuse you but merely laid bare what l saw as the subtext. What Prof. Aluko is canvassing is not correct. And l say this quite advisedly.
To be sure, l take strong exception to your consistent bashing and name calling. It is not healthy and proffers no solution to the crisis in the education sector in Nigeria. Believe me, some of us had offers from universities in North America and UK, but chose to return home: you may call this misplaced patriotism.
I apologise if l sounded abusive. And l leave you with smiles.

Abu

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From: "Ikhide" <xok...@yahoo.com>

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:16:03 +0000

To: USAAfric...@googlegroups.com<USAAfric...@googlegroups.com>; <""Prof.AbuMomoh>

ReplyTo: xok...@yahoo.com

Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world

Professor Momoh,

You do not have to be abusive. I am sure you are capable of intellectual discourse among your peers. Leave the stone-throwing to feral simians.

I have been consistent in sharing my views about ASUU, her mostly self-serving attitude, and the decay of our educational institutions. I only comment on what I see and what I know. Complaining that all you do is ask for more money is not the same as saying you are overpaid. How would I know that? Until the good Professor Aluko brought out data-rich information about salaries, I did not even know it was possible to get such information. A team I was part of has asked Edo State for budget information on Education, since 2010. We are still waiting. In the 21st century. And you expect me to be respectful of such?

Abu, ask Professor Aluko, I know a little bit about educational funding, especially wrt collective bargaining since 89% of what we fund is salaries and compensation. I do not understand why the posted salaries would not be paid - unless they are merely guidelines. In my institution, the results of collective bargaining, once adopted and ratified by all sides, are enforceable - ccontingent upon funding. If the funding does not materialize, we all go back to the drawing board. One option is to scale back the salaries, another is to make cuts elsewhere (which is tough, since only about 12% is discretionary) or a combination of both.

It is also unusual for citizens, not to talk of those directly impacted to be in the dark about basic budget numbers, including by the way, salary schedules. As a public servant, my salary and those of others beyond a certain cut-off is posted for all to see annually by the local paper. Our budgets (operating and capital) are online and accessible to whomever needs them.

You do not have to talk down to me, I am not a small boy, and quite honestly, lead a very busy life; I do not have the time to be mischievous. I may have a certain style, but it is on purpose. Be well, prof.

- Ikhide

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Sender: usaafric...@googlegroups.com

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:37:22 +0000

To: Toyin Falola<usaafric...@googlegroups.com>

[Adewole Atere]

In Osun State University, the same table has been in use. The University bases it's remunerations on the standard set for Federal Universities even though it is a state university.

Adewole Atere, Ph D

Department of Sociology and Criminology,

Osun State University,

Okuku Campus.

Sent from my iPad

[Ikhide]

Professor Momoh,

You do not have to be abusive. I am sure you are capable of intellectual discourse among your peers. Leave the stone-throwing to feral simians.

I have been consistent in sharing my views about ASUU, her mostly self-serving attitude, and the decay of our educational institutions. I only comment on what I see and what I know. Complaining that all you do is ask for more money is not the same as saying you are overpaid. How would I know that? Until the good Professor Aluko brought out data-rich information about salaries, I did not even know it was possible to get such information. A team I was part of has asked Edo State for budget information on Education, since 2010. We are still waiting. In the 21st century. And you expect me to be respectful of such?

Abu, ask Professor Aluko, I know a little bit about educational funding, especially wrt collective bargaining since 89% of what we fund is salaries and compensation. I do not understand why the posted salaries would not be paid - unless they are merely guidelines. In my institution, the results of collective bargaining, once adopted and ratified by all sides, are enforceable - ccontingent upon funding. If the funding does not materialize, we all go back to the drawing board. One option is to scale back the salaries, another is to make cuts elsewhere (which is tough, since only about 12% is discretionary) or a combination of both.

It is also unusual for citizens, not to talk of those directly impacted to be in the dark about basic budget numbers, including by the way, salary schedules. As a public servant, my salary and those of others beyond a certain cut-off is posted for all to see annually by the local paper. Our budgets (operating and capital) are online and accessible to whomever needs them.

You do not have to talk down to me, I am not a small boy, and quite honestly, lead a very busy life; I do not have the time to be mischievous. I may have a certain style, but it is on purpose. Be well, prof.

- Ikhide

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:37:22 +0000

To: Toyin Falola<usaafric...@googlegroups.com>

[Kale Oyedeji]

Without my friend’s name and name of university, but a Federal university, here is his assertion below:

'Kale

From:

Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 1:56 AM
To: Kale Oyedeji
Subject: Re: Nigerian professors among best paid in the world

 

I don't know the salary scale of professors in other countries, but a professor (here) takes home about 3 thousand dollars.

[Ikhide]

Prof,

No wahala, no subtext was intended, none offered. I saw an article that I felt the ilo would be interested in and I shared it, and solicited opinions. I think we are in a better place in terms of data and information than before the article was shared, so many people debating real issues and sharing valuable data. I appreciate that. In terms of my views about education in Nigeria, I make a distinction between systemic decay and dysfunction and the daily challenges and upheavals that individual lecturers and professors have to endure to make it through the day. Two separate issues. We could make the compelling case that when you adjust for those variables, our dons at home could compete with the best anywhere else in the world where these challenges do not exist. The individual is not my issue. How could I honestly say for instance that Professor Eghosa Osaghae, Edo College roommate and bosom friend since 1974 is not "a real professor", that does not make sense, that would be asinine, even entertaining the thought. Is Professor Aluko now less than "a real professor" because he is not at home? That is not my issue; I am simply focused laser like on activist ways to shed light on a dark place - our educational system is in a dark place because many people have been misbehaving and I am not going to be polite about it. People are turning around to talk about it, instead of filling my ears with denials. I am happy. No wahala. All is well ;-)

Be well, man!
 

- Ikhide

 

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From: "amomo...@yahoo.com" <amomo...@yahoo.com>
To: xok...@yahoo.com; Toyin Falola <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>; Prof.A...@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 9:33 AM

[Mobolaji Aluko]

Biko Agozino (the other Biko):

My quick response below:

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Biko Agozino <biko...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Prof Momoh,

Make you no mind people who are jealous of Nigerian professors. Just ask them to apply for jobs in Nigerian universities if they want to follow you enjoy the fruits of the bitter struggles that produced those gains. They will be appointed if they are qualified!

You bet....

 

But VC Aluko, take am easy with your lecturers o. Make you no dey talk down to them like say they be your pickin. Wetin? How can you tell professors who are negotiating for a better pay package that once you know how much your father earns, you will moderate your demands? Are you their father or is the university their mother? That came across as patronizing.

And where did you read that my statement had to do with "negotiating for a better pay package" from the university?

The pay package is DICTATED to the university by its proprietor - the Federal Government - so negotiating that with the university is out of the question.  But also the major QUANTUM of overhead is given to the university, so if I am given N8 million per month for overhead, and a university lecturer wants to go to California for a one-week conference that will cost N2 million, as the Chief Financial Officer, it is my responsibility to let him know WHY the university cannot afford it, except and unless he or she has a funded proposal that has provision for that, or there is a specific staff development fund - whose total figure he or she should know - that would fund it.

That is my idea of shared responsibility, and that CANNOT be patronizing.  I will NOT allow a situation where any lecturer is tempted into believing that the university can afford ANYTHING he or she asks for.

 

Secondly, why do you make fundraising the precondition for awarding seed grants for research to your faculty? Your policy of asking for plan B and asking how much revenue proposed projects will bring in to the university and how much the proposer had already raised is baffling to anyone who has worked in a research university where the scientific merit and the wider impact on the society are the highest criteria for the award of grants, not revenue generation.

Again, who is talking about "awarding seed grants for research?"  You seem to set up a straw position, and then go for criticizing what was not held up.

I have no apology to make to you on my emphasis on fundraising as well as asking for Plan B.  My opening speech to the lecturers was that teaching, research, service AND fund-generation (TRSF) were the four roles for all of them - whatever Faculty they were in - and not just TRS.  If you are into research, the emphasis should be on applied research that will bring money (including discretionary and/or long-range funds) to the university.  A workshop that costs the university millions of dollars to launch - on the mere notion that it increases the visibility of the university - will not fly with me; rather one in which participants pay money that improves the bottom line of the university.

And we are NOT even a research university yet - what with only nearly 300 UNDERGRADUATE students for now.

The last time I visited the University of Otuoke (Rat Nyash, whereas it was originally and more meaningfully called Otueke, Eke Market, as in Otu Onicha) website,

No, it is correctly "Otu Oke" - Otu means people or compound in Yoruba - the town allegedly established by one man called Oke (a Yoruba name) who was known to have come from Benin.  The language of the Ogbia people (of which Otuoke is one town) is completely different from the surrounding Ijaw (or Izon) language.  Interesting, there is also a strong Igbo influence here;  one of the seven major families is called "Ibhe" or "Ibeh."

 

 

the research window was empty. I suggest that you get your faculty together and start awarding competitive grants for theoretical research if they do not have the labs for experiments yet. As you know, such theoretical research earns the greatest accolade in every field and long after the revenue generated by poultry farms have been embezzled, the original contributions and the international prizes the theoretical contributions will attract will remain the legacies of your institution forever. Most Nobel Prizes are awarded for theoretical contributions rather than for applied research. Go figure.

Nobel Prizes will be extra gravy, but not an aim here, to be pragmatic. Precisely what I have indicated to our staff, is that our main focus in research will be:

1   Energy (Oil & Gas) & Environmental Studies

2   Marine & Wetland Studies

3. Sustainable Development Issues

4   Conflict Resolution

5   Entrepreneurship

which will also include defining a regional/geographical focus in an 40-160km rectangular corridor centered around Otuoke as mandated for the new universities:

 

To Nigerian professors, Solidarity Greetings!

Biko

Same here....to all Nigerian teachers, university ones included!  In a meeting with the headmasters of the one primary school, one middle school and one high school at Otuoke, I stated that I was a headmaster like them, just of a university.  Or is that patronizing again of the university lecturers?

I hope not....

[Professor Ayandiji Daniel Aina]

Dear Professor Dennis,

The point we make here is that no known Professor in any federal University in Nigeria earns less than N382,595. This is Level 7 step 1 gross salary per month as every sincere reader can see on the table. Whether or not you have spent 30 years or more on Professorial cadre is a point for your University annual increment plan weighed against budget and whatever local dynamics not known to national rate. The scale published by respected Prof Aluko does not suggest that highest paid Professor earns $4,000 when in simple arithmetics that would sum up to N600,000. The highest gross salary per month is about N502,000 (representing about $3,300).

Kindly tell us in plain words if your gross salary is less than N382k per month and we shall by pass ASUU to discuss with authority at Unijos that they need supplementary budget provision. A lot of people in their bid to undermine efforts of their hard working VCs argue like Prof Dennis, quoting no real statistics while offering near 'blank' statements.

The ball is in your Court. Expect no response from me if no figures are given.

For my respected Prof Abu, I believe and will like to convince you that any subject that has not been fully digested should be revisited and the truth be told, even if bitter as we say. The point for some of us is not the hidden agenda of those who would like to demonize ASUU by portraying home based academics as earning unjustifiable pay. They are entitled to their opinion. They run their mouth, we run our business. The point is about being factual and avoiding deceitful presentations for which Prof Aluko leads and all should follow with a sense of emancipation. 

Shalom. 

Professor Ayandiji Daniel Aina, PhD

President/Vice-Chancellor,

Adeleke University,

PMB 250,

Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.

v...@adelekeuniversity.edu.ng

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+234 8125 77 9470 (sms only)

Conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it. Uthman dan Fodio, 1754-1816

On Feb 12, 2013, at 11:37 AM, "dennis ityavyar" <den...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I am a professor in d University of Jos for over 10 years and have reached the bar of Professorial salary scale y salary is not near what is being paid in Bolajis University. I have never being even paid up to N500k any month. I really doubt if any university. Around here is payin professor up to $4000 per month.

[Mobolaji Aluko]

Abu:

Thanks for your thoughts.

My response below:

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:37 PM, <amomo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Prof. Aluko,
You and l had a debate over this matter about 7 months ago.

I am happy to engage you again.

 

I am surprised it is coming up again for one main reason: you conceded then, that no university Professor, apart from Vice Chancellors, earn more than USD3,000 or so, in Nigerian universities.

I do not know what I conceded, but let us look at this figure - USD3000 - or at N165 to the dollar, .  N495,000, which must therefore be a monthly earning.  Multiplying by 12 is N5,940,000 per annum, which is just below what the very highest professor is paid.  (N161 to the dollar would make that figure N5,796,000 per annum).

So I cannot have conceded what I know is not true.

 

However, Ikhide is the author of all this, qouting from a report that looks obviously dubious and with self serving agenda. How can Nigerian Professors ever be said to be among the best paid in the world? I truly wonder.
Ikhide wants to use that dubious report to make another point: that university lecturers in Nigeria are earning fat salaries that they do not deserve. Why? Because Ikhide has consistently written off our lecturers, students and the universities. Only an imbecile will not see through the smokescreen and subtext to this. At every available opportunity, Ikhide has addressed us in derisively language. To him, good pedagogy and scholarship in Nigerian universities ended with when he graduated.
But it is a free world and l cannot hold him liable for his views.

Ikhide and yourself have exchanged emails on these assertions, and I need not get into your "middle."

What I NEVER contributed to was the debate about the position of Nigerian professors on the world scale of salaries, because I have NOT done that comparison.  We are all entitled to our opinions and not our facts.  What I gave are incontrovertible facts as I knew them for Nigerian federal universities salaries, which it looks as if both state and even some private universities have adopted..

 

The current exchanges are sterile if not trite. Ogungbemi, Nkolika and Aina need not join issues over what is so apparent and need no further evidence or advocate.

Make that Ogungbemi, Nkolika, Aina and Abu....again, we are all entitled to our opinions but not our facts.  What I gave are incontrovertible facts as I knew them.

 

Abu

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[Nkolika Ebele]

Prof,

What you are doing is reflective of your openness and quest for accountability. You may not believe it, asking such questions in some places will spin trouble for the one seen to be prying. Ask your colleagues when you go for committee of VC's meeting,  to know how many of them circulate the budget  of the University to the senate  talk less the entire University staff. We shall wait to hear what  you will find out. 

Nkolka

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From: Mobolaji Aluko <alu...@gmail.com>

To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 9:44 AM

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

How many universities in Nigeria:

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=2&gs_ri=hp&cp=26&gs_id=nq&xhr=t&q=How+many+universities+in+Nigeria&es_nrs=true&pf=p&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=How+many+universities+in+N&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42261806,d.bGE&fp=f9caf1a9834d550c&biw=1024&bih=634

Many thanks for the succinct answer which provides the exact
information required, dear inimitable double Professor Mobolaji
Aluko ! (You notice that I do not degrade or downgrade your eminence
by referring to you as a mere Mwalimu (like 'Lakunle in Soyinka's “The
Lion and the Jewel”). Nor was I raised under savage and primitive
circumstances - and that's why certified intelligence is sometimes so
fulsome in His praise. Forgive the occasional exuberance - just now
I'm smiling at the escapades of Kingsley Amis' “Lucky Jim” - set in a
quiet university atmosphere somewhere in Merry England.)

I had thought that Nigeria's university professors were a special
breed, their middle name PRIVILEGE – the cream of the cream, possibly
above the law (professorial impunity & immunity) and that such alagbas
who grade the papers and therefore the future of their underling
students, did not pay taxes at all and got special bonuses or even
bribes for not doing so.

Am I forgiven for harbouring such vile unwarranted suspicions?

At the heart of all question concerning the size of salary and taxes
are implications about the enticements that can contribute to
reversing the brain drain – caused by people – like many in this
dialogue series moving to the greener pastures of the US, Canada, the
UK, Germany and China – and even among us there are good-hearted
nationals like Shola Adenekan who says that he is
“seriously considering returning home to teach at a university.” - and
I assume that in seriously contemplating such a move or merely toying
with the idea, the final decision will be conditioned on democracy at
home and salary size after taxes. ( In Sweden people boast – and
complain – not so much about how much they earn but about how much tax
they pay – even a wage slave like me has never paid less than 30% -
but then we get good social services – and in Sweden I guess that few
of the gifted want to be professors - they go into money-making,
industry, shipbuilding, the air force, commerce, banking (like T.S.
Eliot – I'm reading Volume 3 of his letters just now) and of course
research in science, medicine, technology,)

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=2&gs_ri=hp&cp=40&gs_id=7&xhr=t&q=Atiku%27s+salaries+for+Nigerian+professors&es_nrs=true&pf=p&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Atiku%27s+salaries+for+Nigerian+professors&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42261806,d.bGE&fp=f9caf1a9834d550c&biw=1024&bih=634

One million dollars a month is serious business and I guess that all
the professors and would-be professors would have liked to have an
Atiku as the chief of Staff of Naija, so that the brain-drain would be
completely reversed - a million bucks a month could promote mass-
emigration back to from whence the Nigerians came and that could be a
good thing, after all there are so many universities trying to address
the needs in twenty first century Nigeria...

http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/

On Feb 12, 8:45 am, Mobolaji Aluko <aluk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My People:
>

> Cornellius Hamelberg asked whether "Nigerian professors pay income tax" and
> Olayinka Agbetuyi responded partially-correctly "that they are enrolled in
> the PAYE tax system like other public and private organizations."    The
> next un-asked question - which I wish to quickly respond -  of course is
> "how much do Nigerian professors pay as income tax?" - and the simple
> answer is "they pay from the same rate table like everyone else, depending
> on their total income and allowances.
>
> In doing that, I will use  EKITI STATE UNIVERSITY CONUASS data - old salary
> vs. new salary, old tax vs. new tax  -  that I had to investigate on behalf
> of fhe then new Governor Fayemi in November 2010 when he INSISTED on
> tripling or double-quadrupling the university staff's tax rates from what
> he considered was a largely ridiculous sub-3% rate.   We will also see that
> in this particular case, married men, single men and women used to pay
> slightly different tax rates.
>

>         *TOTAL EMOLUMENT AND TAX TABLE FOR ACADEMIC STAFF*
>
> *S/N*
>
> *CONUASS*
>
> *GRADE*
>
> *STEP*
>
> *OLD TOTAL*
>
> *OLD TAX*
>
> *OLD TAX FEM.*
>
> *OLD TAX RATE %*
>
> *OLD TAX RATE %*
>
> *NEW TOTAL*
>
> *NEW TAX*
>
> *NEW TAX FEMALE*
>
> *NEW TAX RATE %*
>
> *NEW TAX RATE%*
>
> * *
>
> * *
>
> * *
>
> *EMOLUMENT*
>
> *MARRIED MEN*
>
> */SINGLE MALE*
>
> *MARRIED MEN*
>
> *FEM/SINGLE ML*
>
> *EMOLUMENT*
>
> *MARRIED MEN*
>
> * AND SINGLE MALE*
>
> *MARRIED MEN*
>
> *FEM & SINGLE ML*
>
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> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Olayinka Agbetuyi <yagbet...@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
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>
>
> >  Yes, Nigerian professors pay income tax because they are enrolled in the
> > PAYE tax system like other puplic and private organizations.
>
> > > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:40:08 -0800
>
> > > Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best
> > paid in the world

> > > From: corneliushamelb...@gmail.com

> ...
>
> read more »

[komol...@yahoo.com]

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[Dasylvang]

The same salary regime is what operates at the University of Ibadan. Indeed, staff salaries at the Redeemer's University are slightly higher, I guess perbaps, in order to attract the best hands, and understandably, to cushion the effect of the outrageous taxation by Ogun State government. For example, Professors pay as much as N96,000 monthly tax. Besides, I am also aware of a State university in one of the the oil-rich States, which operates a much higher salary scale than the FG's recommendation too.

I wonder how any one would express doubt, or shock at Prof Aluko's derived tables. I think the Prof-VC deserves to be commended commended for his courage and outspokenness, a true academic that he is. Again, he deserves our commendation for his sincere efforts at making available/accessible verifiable data for public consumption and education. Brother, keep on the good work.

Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva, PhD.
Professor of African Literature & Oral Literature;
Coordinator, Ibadan Cultural Studies Group,
University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
& Convener, TOFAC International.

Visiting Professor of African Literature,
Department of English,
Redeemer's University,
Km 46, Lagos/Ibadan Express Way
Mowe, Ogun State.

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian professors among best paid in the world

From: Adewole Atere <wolea...@yahoo.com>
To: "usaafric...@googlegroups.com" <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
CC:

In Osun State University, the same table has been in use. The University bases it's remunerations on the standard set for Federal Universities even though it is a state university.

Adewole Atere, Ph D

Department of Sociology and Criminology,

Osun State University,

Okuku Campus.

Sent from my iPad

[Adewole Atere]

At last we seem to be witnessing some measure of peace between Ikhide and Momoh. I pray that the smile lingers for ever. Fraternal love to both of you and all on this list serve. Thanks.

Adewole Atere,

Department of Sociology and Criminology,

Osun State University,

Okuku Campus.

Sent from my iPad

[Segun]

Prof. Aluko:

When one is in the employment of Federal Government in Nigeria one must be very careful of what one says because it can be interpreted correctly or incorrectly. When one tilts too favorably towards the position of government one can be said to be an agent or an errand of government.   Sometimes it can be true but not necessarily the case  in all cases.  All depends on how an individual's disposition on a particular case is. 

As an elderly person, I don't insult people. I love a healthy intellectual discourse because it promotes academic excellence. 

There is always a tendency on the part of some of our leaders at different levels of their calling to generalize rather than limit themselves to a very limited environment that they know. For example, for anyone in Nigeria to say that Professors in Federal Universities are among the "best paid in the world" without any significant proof is  probably and perhaps absolutely incorrect. In philosophy we proportion a belief according to evidence and not generalization. 

The official exchange rate of Nigerian currency on February 11, 2013 in The Punch was 154.74 naira to the US dollar and not 160-165 which you quoted. What is the source of the exchange rate you used ? Or is it the black market exchange rate? It looks so to me.  
Professor Momoh and the friend of Kale Oyedeji have argued that the salary of a Professor is about three thousand dollars a month. If you multiply it by 154.74 it gives you 464220 naira a month. If we go by your claim that Professors in  Federal Universities earns 4000 dollars each monthly and multiply it by 154.74 it gives an equivalent of 618960 naira monthly. If we use your exchange rate of 160 or 165 naira to the dollar it  gives 640000 naira or 660000 naira  respectively as monthly salary of a full Professor. 

Would you please ask any of those Professors in the Federal Universities who earn either 640000 or 660000 naira monthly to show us their pay slips as proofs? 

Also would you tell us how much tax they pay monthly and the net monthly take home of these Professors?

By the time you show us all these and not a table and scale of salary being paid to Professors in the Federal Universities in Nigeria your case will probably become persuasive. We need some more preponderant evidence and not ordinary figures. 

Besides, a few Professors at your University are a part of the whole and  logic teaches me that we cannot use a part to generalize for the whole. A full Professor at University of Jos has faulted your argument hence it is not valid. In other words, the premise of your argument is that full Professors at Federal Universities in Nigeria ranked among the best paid professors in the world. University of Jos is a Federal University and a full Professor from that institution has faulted your claim. 

Furthermore you need to bear in mind the inflation rate of each country because it has its own determinant factor on how much workers are paid. 

When you have done that, please show 100 best Universities in the world and the salaries of their Professors and compare them with our own and see if ours ranked  among the best in the world. That is the way to go Prof. 

I have no personal grouch against you. As a matter of fact, I got to know you through your intellectual contributions and statistic wizardry to this blog. Intellectual criticism is healthy and it needs to be recognized and respected.   I, therefore respect it just as I "respect myself".

Best wishes,

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 10, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi:

You have made two broadsides in a row about my contribution on this matter already.  I find them both disingenuous, and I am not sure what your intentions are.  For example you wrote that "Let the truth be told that professors do not earn the salary purported by the government errand agents."  I don't know who those "government errand agents" are, and if you are referring to me, you should absolutely respect yourself.

Moving on....

I have given to you the salaries that I, as VIce-Chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, program as payment to ALL the academic levels that I stated in the table below.  CONUASS (Consolidated salary) includes:

   - basic salary

   - peculiar salary (roughly 3/10 of total consolidated)

   - rent (roughly 1/10 of total consolidated)

and they are all paid together.

Could you tell this assembly how much you earn consolidated at Akungba?

Thanks.

Bolaji Aluko

PS:  I have attached the earlier 2009 Wages commission circular.

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Segun <Segun...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Here we go again. Where in Nigeria in the Federal Universities a full Professor earns such a colossal salary? Not the Nigeria that I am pretty conversant with.  

Some of the government agents are now at work to mislead the public about the salary a full Professor earns monthly. Whose interest are they serving? What kind of faulty propaganda is this? What do they stand to gain by deceiving the public? 

If these agents of government don't have anything to do,  they should engage in research that will add values to academia. 

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alu...@gmail.com> wrote:

My People:

The following table gives the salaries of university lecturers, including Professors - straight from NSIWC. (I added the academic ranks below the table myself.) You can divide the salaries below by 160-165 to get roughly the dollar equivalent.  A Vice-Chancellor (at least in the federal system) earns twice the salary of the highest-paid professor - and that does not include all the perquisites of the office.

And there you have it....no need guessing.....

Bolaji Aluko

Vice-Chancellor, FU Otuoke

Telling the truth, and letting the devil be ashamed

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:41 PM, <ojod...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have not stopped wandering since I read the report yesterday.$4, 629 per month is at least $1, 300 higher than the real figure. I don't know why we need this comparison anyway. Well, thanks, prof, for your intervention. Shalom.

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Those who engage in discussions on this forum shouldd at least be among the informed and not ordinary market women and men. They should take time to be informed by themselves before coming to the public domain to volunteer any opinion.  As a Professor in Nigeria and who is knowledgible about the stuggle to improve the academic system in the country, i can say withou any equivocation that no Nigerian Professor earns the amount being touted . --- On Tue, 2/5/13, Ikhide <xok...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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"A Nigerian full professor, which according to the report, earns an equivalent of $4, 629 per month in public institutions, is rated the 13th best paid don among the 28 nations." http://www.punchng.com/education/nigerian-professors-among-best-paid-in-the-world/   JAMB question! Are professors in Nigeria underpaid? If not, why not? Discuss!   - Ikhide   -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin. For current archives, visit http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue

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[Biko Agozino]

Headmaster Aluko (Aluko again),

I come in solidarity, relax.

You and I agree that university academic staff are by definition researchers in addition to whatever else they are doing. Research is what should drive everything else they do. To prioritize fund-raising is to get your priorities wrong because fundraising could be delegated to an executive officer who goes all out to solicit funds on behalf of the university, with the support of academic staff as well, while the eggheads do what they are supposed to be best at - discover new knowledge. With 300 students you cannot claim to be a teaching university because elementary schools have more than that number of students. But you can always claim to be engaged in research because that is a taken for granted role of all universities.

Surely, you have an empty window called 'Research' on your web page, I suggest that you highlight the research, any research that is being done by your faculty or what they did in the past or what they plan to do in the future. That way, you will motivate them to take research more seriously and make the world to take notice. If you need help, just appoint some of our better established researchers from other institutions as visiting professors and fund your faculty to collaborate with them. Otherwise, delete the research window and remove research from the job definition of your academic staff and see how ridiculous that will seem.

When I mentioned the Nobel Prize as an example, I was not suggesting that our village headmaster should get his grade school teachers to aspire to be laureates. All I was indicating is the truism that theorists are the top names in every academic field, bar none. Yet, our desperate socio-economic needs pressurize us to prioritize 'applied research' over and above theoretical contributions. But we cannot have the chicken without the eggs and so we continue importing everything from toothpicks to matches just because we confuse the hustling for money-minting consultancy reports for atheoretical applied research.

Oga Headmaster, I can see why Nigerian professors might be suffering even with their millions of naira in salary. You are acting like their boss rather than their colleague. You are telling them that their research must be applied to the petroleum and gas industry, engineering, agriculture, etc. I suggest that you allow them the academic freedom to develop theories in their areas of interest as well. As the village Headmaster, you may be the Chief Financial Officer of the University of Rat's Nyash, but you should not concentrate so much power in your hands. I suggest that you devolve the authority to award grants to the Research Committee of the University Senate. If you get 8 million naira every month for overheads, I beg, how much of that do you allocate towards research and development projects? You should do that as a matter of course.

Aluko, Aluni, what is the meaning of your name in Yoruba? It means 'when we work collaboratively...the rest is history (in Igbo). So the village of Chief Dr. Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan was founded by your ancestor, Oranmiyan, son of Olodumari (who was said to have been the chid of Igbo, according to Ifa priests, mind you)? Now that is a theory that you are developing mythopoetically. It is a testable hypothesis in the sense that the Igbo and the Yoruba are one people who speak the related languages of the Niger-Congo family of languages. But beware the longing for empires and the hubris of naming other people after your ancestors because empires rise and empires inevitably fall due to lack of democracy. Did the people of the town debate and vote to change their name from Otueke to Otuoke or did you impose that by fiat as the village headmaster of a glorified primary school?

Of course, you are not a headmaster. You are only a Vice Headmaster who will return to the classroom after your brief tenure. And yes, that is patronizing to your faculty and students. There you have it.

Biko

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[Mobolaji Aluko]

Biko Agozino:

Clearly, you have an angle - including with comicality like Rat's Nyash and the like -  that you wish to explore on this matter, and it may have nothing to do with the discussion at hand.

So I shall leave you to your own devices.  The thread is worn with me.

Best wishes always.

Bolaji Aluko

[Mobolaji Aluko]

Prof. Ogungbemi:

Thanks for your thoughts, but they are based on two fallacious assumptions:

1,  that I stated anywhere that any Nigerian professor (outside of a Vice-Chancellor) earns equal to or more than $4,000.  In fact, all my figures (including at the white or black market rate of N165 to the dollar) shows that they earn LESS than N4,000.

2.  that I stated that Nigerian professors are one of the best paid in the world.  It may be true; it may not be true, but I made ABSOLUTELY no assertion one way or the other, because I have NOT made any comparative analysis of salaries of professors around the world. nor am I inclined to at this time.  My suspicion is that it will not be a far out assertion on a country-by-country basis.

Finally, I still object to your insinuation of my being one of "government errand agents", softened only slightly by your last paragraph below.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

PS:  On an inspiration, I googled and got the information below for India.  Happy reading.

http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/news/indian-profs-best-paid-among-brics-nation-study

Indian Profs best paid among BRIC nations: Study

04 Sep 2012

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A recent study has revealed that professors from India are highest paid among BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations. The study, conducted by the Center for International Higher Education, Boston, and the Higher School of Economics, Moscow as well as published in a book, Paying the professoriate — A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts, that was released recently, compared salaries of professors from 28 countries on the basis of the purchasing power parity (PPP) and found that the entry-level salary (that of an assistant professor in PPP terms) in India is $3,954. While their peers in China, Russia and Brazil earn $259, $433 and $1,858, respectively.

However, the salaries in India are less than that in the US ($4,950) and in Canada ($5,733), which topped the list.

The study also found that full-time academicians in India live comfortably like their peers in the US, the UK, Germany and Australia. On an average, they make $6,070 a month.

The study’s sample size comprised teachers from only government and aided institutions.

Speaking on the findings, Madhu Nair, dean of faculty of commerce at the University of Mumbai, said that the study should be taken with a pinch of salt. He, however, supports high salaries for teachers. “It (A high salary) is justified as a teacher’s future prospects are very limited as compared to those of people in other professions.” 

Meanwhile, the planning commission is reportedly using this study to chalk out a comprehensive plan to fill vacancies on campuses.

 

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[Mobolaji Aluko]

My People:

In the 2012 book that I referred to below, the data about how Professors in 28 countries are paid is reported. One of the tables is referred to below:

http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/news/indian-profs-best-paid-among-brics-nation-study

                      

Best wishes always.

Bolaji Aluko