martineverest:
This thieves are asking for total exemption from TSA..... Just imagine how fees have been reduced after implemention of TSA... Most of Our lecturers are thieves

Statsocial:
Nukilla ASUU isn't entirely the problem. Some gains we have made in higher education is because of the strikes that ASUU has embarked on.

To be able to generate funds from research you need the equipment and facility that would make you attract those grants.

Let me give you an example of my own school. Prior to 2011, I am not sure anyone really talked about improving igr from research grants because our labs(in biological sciences) were the usual traditional laboratories(e.g microbiology, biochemistry lab e.t.c) you would find in OAU or UI but better equipped.

When the Living Faith Church then granted CU about 500 million naira to equip a molecular lab. It was then i knew Nigerian lecturers are brilliant. We started having numerous grants from countries.

...So now Oyedepo can actually have the audacity to say "go find igr from research" since they have given the school the facility, equipment, electricity e.t.c

theSpark:
Endowments and grants from the private sector would have made sense but as the writer alluded ASUU are not ready to be accountable. Besides TETFund recently accused from lecturers of mismanaging research grants and collecting funds for conferences they would not attend.

jayriginal:
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And what's wrong with that?

HAH:
If I were the president I would privatised all the university management while the structures remains governments and give students scholarship from the money the government is suppose to pay as salaries and allowance to the lecturers, thereby making them work like in private universities

ASUU should then deal with its management not government. Greedy men

Since the structure is owned by government, the management can charge let's say 200k per student, then the government can pay for tuition through scholarship board it can even be based on performance like 50% for all students, 75% for those with 3.50 and above and 100% for those with 4.00 and above.

Assuming the tuition is 200k per student, 1billion can pay for 5000 students, so 100 billion can pay for 500k students

rezy15:

With all due respect research for facts lecturers don't take your money. The only reason lecturers asked for exemption is because with TSA visiting lecturers to other federal universities can't be paid because their account will be flagged. Bvn complicated payments as it will be seen as double payment under the payment system. Same with part-time lecturers

Lionhearted:
Yes our professors need to be well remunerated, and ASUU also need to be realistic. Some of their demands are simply impossible.

Full autonomy and 100% funding from government? They better look for Santa elsewhere.

If not for the students I will say let the schools be shut down for 2 years. Two years without salaries will reset their brain in this hard time.

hedonistic:
Nigerian lecturers have always been an arrogant bunch with a misplaced and grossly exaggerated sense of entitlement and delusion of self-importance.

I encounter them often, prancing about with a chip on their shoulders, expecting everyone to bow before them because they are "Dr" this or "professor" that, and expecting to earn mammoth salaries for the reason that they are "intellectuals". They are quick to remind you that "ordinary" local government councilors earn xyz, while undeserving National Assembly members earn xxyyzz, so that should justifiably earn multiples of that.

Seriously, these characters need to be put in their place. Most of them are incompetent hacks anyway, with much of their research papers highly plagiarised or full of inconsequential gibberish, while their impact on their students is close to zero - rehashing outdated theories and spending much of their time in class massaging their own egos rather than imparting any knowledge on their hapless students.

Zeze06:
"accountability" not privatization

privatisation of universities will be the worst thing that can happen to Nigeria...

Because school fees will be very high and not affordable (how many can parents can afford private university education, covenant for example...)

ASUU is definitely greedy, but there has to be a body to put them on check, and ensure it implements all the agreements made with the federal govt...

HAH:
If I were the president I would privatised all the university management while the structures remains governments and give students scholarship from the money the government is suppose to pay as salaries and allowance to the lecturers, thereby making them work like in private universities

ASUU should then deal with its management not government. Greedy men

Since the structure is owned by government, the management can charge let's say 200k per student, then the government can pay for tuition through scholarship board it can even be based on performance like 50% for all students, 75% for those with 3.50 and above and 100% for those with 4.00 and above.

Assuming the tuition is 200k per student, 1billion can pay for 5000 students, so 100 billion can pay for 500k students

rezy15:

With all due respect research for facts lecturers don't take your money. The only reason lecturers asked for exemption is because with TSA visiting lecturers to other federal universities can't be paid because their account will be flagged. Bvn complicated payments as it will be seen as double payment under the payment system. Same with part-time lecturers