Students're quitting Nigerian universities to Kigali
…in new evidence of rot in education ON June 15, 2022, Irekanmi packed his bags and baggage, left their Abule-Egba, Lagos home and headed for the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA). Accompanied by his mum, uncle and brother, they arrived about an hour later at the airport where they were scheduled to travel to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Departures formalities completed, they boarded the Rwanda Air flight. Irekanmi, mum, uncle and brother were not on a business trip. Neither were they on vacation. Irekanmi was travelling to start a new life in Kigali. Mum, uncle and brother were only accompanying him to see the place where Irekanmi would take residence in the next four years and will soon be back in Nigeria. Irekanmi’s case is the new evidence of how young Nigerians are leaving their home country to start a new life abroad. In what is popularly called JAPA (Yoruba word for ‘flee’, ‘run’ or ‘escape’), young Nigerians are ‘escaping’ abroad for various reasons but mostly eco...