ANALYSIS OF NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS' PAY

Thursday, December 16, 2010
Compared to Nigerian legislators, Indian lawmakers are paupers
NNAEMEKA MERIBE and GBENGA ADENIJI

A comparative analysis of Nigerian legislators' earnings and those of other countries reveals that the former can pay many of their counterparts in other countries and still remain very rich, NNAEMEKA MERIBE and GBENGA ADENIJI write.

L-R: Hon. Speaker, House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, Senate President, David Mark

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An Indian lawmaker needs to work for at least 49 years to earn the annual salary of a Nigerian senator. A lawmaker in India earns $23,988 (N3.7m) per annum while a Nigerian senator earns $1.2m (N182m) per annum. A monthly breakdown shows that while an Indian lawmaker earns $1,999 (N305, 058) per month, a Nigerian senator earns $ 99,167(N15.18m) per month.

Behold A Worthy Nigerian

Behold, school proprietor who never went to school

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Written by Dipo Laleye Monday, 13 December 2010

Danladi Yau

Dipo Laleye writes that a man who never went to school has become so passionate about education that the school he established is adjudged to be one of the largest in Minna.

At 11 years of age, Danladi Yau, was brought to Minna from Kano by his parents to learn the Is-lamic holy book, the Quran, a practice that is commonly called ‘almajirinshi’ in the northern part of the country.
The almajiri have no other business than to learn the Quran and after graduating and regaining freedom from their Mallams, they are expected to return to their parents though most of them refuse to do so preferring to make a permanent home in the environment of their former ‘schools’.