A don and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Ibadan, Idowu Sunday, has said the dwindling economy and insecurity are encouraging more experts in the country’s Information Technology industry to leave Nigeria for other countries.
He also said government’s inability to create an enabling environment had made it difficult for the sector to experience significant growth in the country in the last few years, adding that majority of banks had lost their IT experts as a result of low pay when compared to developed countries.
The professor, who said this while speaking in an interview with Sunday PUNCH, stressed that government should concentrate the nation’s resources on rescuing critical sectors of the country.
He said, “Why won’t they ‘japa’? If I were younger than this, I would have also left; I wouldn’t have come back to this country.
“The point is when you work very hard in Nigeria and the return is not up to one hundred…
