Prof. Jeremiah Ojediran, Vice-Chancellor of Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun, has appealed to Federal Government to improve the funding of education, to reduce the “Japa Syndrome” in the country.
Ojediran made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Ota, Ogun.
The vice-chancellor noted that lack of facilities across universities, poor funding and remunerations were some of the factors contributing to brain drain in education sector.
“The Federal Government needs to make education more attractive by increasing funding, providing new infrastructure and improving on the ready facilities in place, to boost research and publication.
“In addition, they should increase salaries of workers so that they can compete favourably with their international counterparts.
“Increasing the workers’ salary is very imperative as what people outside earned as salary is 10 times more than what people are paying in Nigeria.”
The vice-chancellor emphasised the need to adequately fund education and other sectors of the economy to stem the tid of brain drain.
He said that massive investments in education was a bedrock of any nation that desired to achieve sustainable economic growth.
