would attract and keep American lecturers of some quality (there are
degrees and there are degrees even in mathematics). I am left
wondering whether the term "American lecturers" includes all the
African and many Nigerian academics that have naturalised in the
United States and return to Nigerian, to lecture. In that case, it is
yet another aspect of reversing the brain drain.
About this, it is reported that Alagba-in chief, Wole Soyinka opines
that "wooing Africa's best and brightest back to the continent did not
just imply providing good salaries, but also creating an enabling
environment for the professionals to do their jobs."
http://news.myjoyonline.com/international/201010/54896.asp
Yes indeed, the strain caused by the brain drain cannot be reversed or
stopped without active co-operation of the beneficiaries of the brain
drain from Africa – and back to Africa.
Ages ago, Philip Emeagwali addressed the issue here – and the emphasis
should be on the contents and good sense in his message and less on
the messenger:
http://emeagwali.com/speeches/brain-drain/to-brain-gain/reverse-brain-drain-from-africa.html
On Oct 30, 7:43 pm, Ameh Dennis Akoh <ojodum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does Atiku know the value of 1 million dollars in naira? American
> standard indeed! Is he saying that American lecturers in America take
> 1million dollars per month? Perish that thought! Why hire American
> lecturers? American lecturers are in now way better than Nigerian
> lecturers (I hope he is literate enough to know that there are
> countless Nigerian lecturers who also have proved themselves better
> than their American counterparts). I think we should forgive bold
> kleptomaniacs like Atiku and allow God to answer them His own way.
>
> On 30/10/2010, Tunde Oseni <tundeos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > 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=Art201010295293351The Punch
>
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> > Babatunde Oseni, MSc (Oxford)
> > PhD Candidate & Teaching Assistant
> > Department of Politics
> > College of Social Sciences & International Studies
> > University of Exeter
> > Exeter, United Kingdom.
> > Url:www.linkedin.com/in/tundeoseni
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