The Vice Chancellor of Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, has said that no Nigerian professor should ideally earn less than N1 million monthly.

He lamented that lecturers, especially the professors, are currently poorly paid in Nigerian universities, saying that a professor earns less than half a million naira in a month.

The don, who stated this, at the weekend, during an interactive session with members of the Correspondent Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ekiti State chapter, wondered how a poorly remunerated lecturer is expected to put in his best.

Fasina, who spoke on the removal of universities from the Integrated Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), said it was the best decision taken to move the citadel of learning forward.

His words: “We know what we are and we know how much we can pay and how many we can take care of. The advantage now is that we are now independent to decide on proper management of the system. We can always take from our Internally-Generated Revenue (IGR) to supplement what we are given by the government.

“There is bureaucracy in IPPIS, which gives us headache. We have some of our members of staff who haven’t collected their salary for many months now because of that bureaucracy. We have a situation where a former VC who went on sabbatical was denied his salaries on return for several months due to the bottlenecks of IPPIS.”