On this brain drain issue..Nigeria

Reuben Abati, made some valid points, but i think we ought to be less myopic when discussing the brain drain that plagues our country...


For the past two decades, Nigerian academics in search of better conditions for contemplative inquiry have continued to flock in droves to foreign universities. The tragedy is that the situation at home has not improved. The brain drain phenomenon continues to pose a threat to the Nigerian university system. The Nigerian academic is a victim of so many contradictions, man-made, self-inflicted and environmentally conditioned. My guest had also relocated abroad some years ago. He is now a Professor in one of the leading American universities. But the fire of patriotism still burns in him. He has a passion for his country. He has an abiding faith in the capacity of the
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