“I reached the bar of the professorial salary scale in 2011. My salary was N420,167.43. The exchange rate then was N155.71 to $1 dollar in November 2011, meaning that my salary was $2,698.40. As I was finalising this Exaugural lecture on 22nd January 2024, my salary (take home) stood at N395,500.00 and the exchange rate was N1355 to a dollar showing that my salary in dollar was $291.88 having spent more than twenty (20) years as a professor”
