Juliet Jacob 
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has raised alarm over a mass exodus of senior academics from Nigeria’s public universities, revealing that 309 professors resigned in the last nine months in search of better working conditions abroad.
ASUU Zonal Coordinator for Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, and Katsina States, Prof. Abubakar Sabo, disclosed this at a town hall meeting of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto branch on Saturday.
“We lost about 309 professors — some to private universities, others to the UK, Saudi Arabia, and Cameroon. Our intellectual capital is bleeding,” he said.
Sabo warned that the trend poses a major threat to the survival of the university system, describing it as an intellectual haemorrhage caused by poor pay and neglect.
“If the government continues to ignore us, we will not fold our arms while the system collapses,” he added.
ASUU-UDUS Chairperson Prof. Muhammad Almustapha said the meeting was aimed at alerting Nigerians to the deepening decay in tertiary education and government’s failure to honour agreements.
“It has become a cycle of broken promises and dashed hopes,” he said.
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