Come Teach in Nigeria : US-Nigeria Academic Migration : Questions Arising

[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

How accurate?

'Occasionally, out of the blues a Nigerian university offers me a teaching job.

 I look at the monthly salary and it is generally about $2000 a month. I cannot meet my financial obligations with that. But in Nigeria apparently that sum is a big deal. 

In Nigeria the minimum wage is about $60 a month. 

The entire Nigerian federal budget is $27 billion dollars a year. This is about the budget of the University of California. 

Alaska with a population of less than a million people has a budget of over $10 billion dollars a year.

 Nigerians ought to start appreciating their country's poverty and talk realistically about it. '

Cheers, Ozodiobi