If Education is not tourism, why study abroad?

Adamu Adamu: Nigerian Minister of Education

I am aware that in this I will be treading on a delicate path, but I stand by my view. The craze for foreign

education came with the crash in our educational system.

The question is that Nigeria has always been a developing country, in the days of yore when foreigners were coming to study in Nigeria, were we Developed?

Of course not. It was just that things were moving smoothly. I shudder at the prospect of the German Ambassador to Nigeria being summoned to explain why others are getting Visas and Nigerians are being denied Visas.

The German Ambassador may not be able to request that we retaliate by denying Germans Visas to study in Nigeria.

Of course he will not do that, instead he would promise to forward our concerns to the appropriate quarters. But truth be told somehow we tend to prefer foreign trained graduates to those trained at home and I wonder why?

My consternation arises from my worry whether those trained abroad are trained to provide solutions to our problems or to the problems of their country of study.

Someone once said that no country can give another country its best. Nigeria will not develop if we continue to rely on foreigners to train our children. 

What it does is to alienate our children and make them foreign citizens and yet we expect them to call Nigeria home.

I will never tire of emphasizing that our current attitude is making a mockery of all the efforts put into anti slavery.

These days we willingly alienate our people and turn them refugees abroad. East or West, home is the best. We should improve our standard of living ourselves and attract others not the other way round.