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 <tundeoseni@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=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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