Jet Stanley Madu
Pro-Chancellor and chairman Governing Council of University of Lagos (UNILAG), Dr. Wale Babalakin has challenged technologists to provide alternative to foreign expatriate services in Nigeria.
He made the call at the annual lecture and exhibition series of the School of Technology, Yaba College of Technology (YA-BATECH), Lagos.
In his lecture, Babalakin pointed out that no expatriate has the capability to develop a country better than local technologists, adding that the foreigners only “have the financial capability and not the emotional capability”.
The legal luminary who was the guest lecturer asserted that Nigerian students possess the innate ability to contribute to national development. He recalled that at post-independence era, Nigeria had higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than Asian counties and traced the rot in every sphere of the country’s economy including education to the oil boom era. Unequivocally,…
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