Yobe employs 35 Indian, Philippine professors in state university

Yobe State government has engaged the
services of 35 Indian and Philippine
Professors for its university, Bukar Abba
Ibrahim University (BAIU), Damaturu,
DailyPost has learnt.
The expatriate were engaged to teach
science and technology courses with a view
to addressing desertification that is
spreading southwards, at 600 metres per
annum, a worrisome development for the
state.
Speaking on Monday in Damaturu, the Vice
Chancellor of BAIU, Professor Musa Alabe,
informed Governor Ibrahim Gaidam that
the first batch of the professors would
arrive the state this week to commence
teaching and embark on research at the
institution.
“Your Excellency, the engagement
of these foreign professors was
inevitable, because the earlier
advertisement placed in the national dailies
to employ more qualified academic staff of
the institution could not be realized
regarding filling the vacant positions of
professorship and other teachers for this
institution,” he said.
Prof. Alabe, who conducted the governor
round the institution’s Faculty of Law and
other new facilities, disclosed that 21 of the
professors were from India, while 14 others
would be coming from Philippine.
Both countries are known for their efforts
towards the advancement of modern
science and technology, a development that
has endeared them to many nations of the
world including developed countries.