The vice chancellor, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Prof, Christian Anieke, weekend, identified job creation and employment opportunities as panacea to brain drain.
Anieke said brain drain was damaging the country’s economy and the only way to stem the tide was for government to create employment opportunities and better working conditions.
The administrator stated this during the graduation ceremony of vocational students project, by the Centre of Practical Skills, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu.
The project, implemented by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), in Enugu, Nigeria, graduated the first set of Nigerian youth who have completed vocational training.
Anieke said the university engaged in the collaboration when they discovered that job creation and employment opportunities in Africa remained the solution “to stem the tide of migration, which is called ‘Japa in Nigeria’.”
While hailing the ICMPD, he said the idea of the centre “is to provide workers for companies, so the companies will not have problem trying to source its workers.
“I confirm, not from hearsay, that these young men are ready to supply the needed skills, the needed manpower in Nigeria. I do hope that there will be no need for these young men to leave outside Nigeria to explore greener pastures.
“I do hope that with this young man and women will be so well paid that they will not need to travel outside Nigeria. We know the effect of brain drain, whether it is on the side of medical doctors, on the side of other professionals in this country, brain drain is a huge damage to the economy of any nation.”