Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - I pay my American lecturers one million dollars per month — Atiku

This must be a slip of the tongue. One million dollars? Impossible.

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From: Tunde Oseni
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - I pay my American lecturers one million dollars per month — Atiku

Dear All, This has generated 537 comments in 24hrs. Seems interesting. The Punch 29 October, 2010:

 

American lecturers at the American University of Nigeria, owned by the former vice-president and now presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, earn one million dollars per month.

This was disclosed by Abubakar, at the second National Joint Education Stakeholders Action Coalition held in Abuja on Thursday.

According to him under the salary was part of the negotiations that he had with an American university in Washington D.C in the United States before it allowed the lecturers to come to Nigeria.

Atiku said, "Today I do not derive one kobo from all the investments I have made in education. Rather, in the university I still continue to pay the American lecturers one million dollars every month because the school fees that they are charging are not even enough to fuel the generators that they are running because the university was built to American standard. Because I have a special agreement with the American university in Washington, managing the university and everything I do must conform to American standard."

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201010295293351 The Punch

 

 

 

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Department of Politics
College of Social Sciences & International Studies
University of Exeter
Exeter, United Kingdom.
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