Why Nigerians go to Ghana, Togo for higher education – Prof Akande

An educationist, Prof Busari Shaamsuddeen Akande has deduced that safe environment, required skills for industries and quality supply of electricity are some of the many reasons young Nigerians and their parents are still looking towards Ghana and Togo for higher education despite high costs.

Akande, Secretary of Council of the American Chartered Institute of Management and Leadership, based in the State of Kentucky, USA, spoke in an interview with DAILY POST in Calabar on Sunday.

“These smaller, neighbouring countries produce young graduates with the required skills to support key industries.

“In Togo or Republic of Benin, there is no issue of strike. There is quality supply of electricity, safe environment, peaceful co-existence, tailor made specialisation of university courses.”

In his opinion, Akande said the massive size of a country does not matter when it comes to educational success.

According to him, when a country is small, it can recover faster, develop faster and make all the innovative changes faster.

He said higher institutions ought to be specialised so that students come out well skilled and specialised in their chosen fields.

“Not where graduates of law from the University of Agriculture and School of Legal Studies produce mass communicators.