According to a report, government-owned institutions in Nigeria may face difficulties as instructors continue to flee the system in large numbers in search of better opportunities elsewhere.
The report claims that if the situation doesn't get under control, there would be a severe lack of teachers, which will lower the standard of instruction in the institutions.
According to the article, 50% of instructors at different universities have resigned, and those who haven't quit yet are warming up.
The desire for better working conditions, career fulfilment, insecurity, low pay, insufficient funding, non-payment of outstanding salaries of university teachers accrued during the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike period, as well as the difficult economic climate, are among the factors driving the exodus.
According to recent data, up to 80% of the remaining employees are planning to quit if the current situation continues.
The recent implementation of 35% and 23% compensation increases for all employees of federal tertiary institutions was approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, although many people are still exploring other options.
Many universities, including University of Ibadan (UI), University of Lagos (UNILAG), University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), University of Benin (UNIBEN), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba- Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, University of Uyo, Federal University, Otuoke, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Ambrose Ali University among others are experiencing the same issue.
According to a lecturer at UNILAG who requested anonymity and said that 70% of the institution's top lecturers had left their positions as a result of the government's failure to address the myriad problems facing the sub-sector.
"As a result of the subpar working circumstances in Nigeria, more than 70% of the bright and potential young academics kept by the institution through mentoring have already departed the nation for better opportunities. The people who are still here are about to leave. This is regrettable and unfortunate," he remarked.
Five lecturers left UNILAG this month, according to UNILAG Vice Chancellor Prof. Folashade Ogunsola, who also cautioned that things might become worse if problems with higher education are not fixed.
At UI, the situation is the same because up to 75% of the teaching staff has left and moved abroad. At the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) induction ceremony, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Kayode Adebowale, mentioned the situation of a particular department where, out of 13 teachers, nine resigned and left the country.
At AAUA, it was discovered that about 45% of lecturers from different departments had already gone for abroad, and many more were preparing to do so.
An official at the University of Ilorin who requested anonymity acknowledged that over 40% of academics and some non-teaching employees have left the nation in search of better opportunities.
Additionally, it was discovered that almost 50% of lecturers at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), and the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, had also resigned and moved abroad.
Dr. Happiness Uduk, an ASUU representative at the University of Uyo, stated that many of her coworkers had quit the organisation. She made the observation that "professors and other lecturers in UniUyo who had opportunities outside have left, and more are leaving the country for greener pastures," without specifically mentioning the number of lecturers and professors who have left the university.
According to a representative of the Federal University of Technology (FUTA), Akure, many teachers had to hunt for alternatives because of the poor status of Nigerian universities and the failure to pay lecturers' unpaid salary for the previous eight months.
Similar results have been obtained by Kaduna State University (KASU), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), and Zaria. A member of staff at KASU revealed that resignations or mass flight of academics looking for better opportunities abroad or elsewhere has been a widespread occurrence among the workforce.
Dr. Socrates Ebo, a lecturer at the Federal University in Otuoke, said that several of his colleagues had left the institution to study abroad, "where things work."
Similarly, Dr. Garshagu Atovigba, a lecturer in the Department of Science and Mathematics Education at Benue State University, Makurdi, revealed that roughly 35% of lecturers had left the college.
Intellectual flight has been called "one of the greatest challenges" facing the African continent and the Nigerian education system by Musa Aibinu, director of the Federal University of Technology, Minna's Centre for Open, Distance, and e-Learning. He claimed that every year, over 23,000 lecturers leave Africa for other continents.
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