The exit of academics from Nigerian universities has reached alarming proportions. The article highlights the causes and effects of this exodus. Among the causes of the flight has been the pervasive insecurity of life under military rule and the abject poverty which the unconditional implementation of SAP has heightened. The exodus has resulted in the loss of experienced academics, specialists and administrators, with a corresponding fall in the standards of education. This drain has undermined the leadership role of Nigeria in Africa.
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The British Administration and Domestic SlaveryAs a result of the British desire to maintain good political relations with the slave owners in Northern Nigeria, domestic slavery was left intact and allowed to continue quietly for a long time. The early proclamations deliberately deemphasized domestic slavery, and this provided legitimization to the institution up to 1936. Two recent studies of slavery in Northern Nigeria have shed light on the changes in the institution of slavery and slave trade under colonial rule. Hogendorn's and Lovejoy's study demonstrates among other things how slavery changed dramatically within the first fourteen years of colonial rule.1 C.N. Ubah examines the three phases of the decline of slave trade and some of the major problems that accompanied the British efforts to suppress it.2 Hogendorn and Lovejoy's study mentions Sokoto, but Ubah's study clearly neglects Sokoto, the capital emirate of the region. Both of these studies ignore the essence of the 1936 proclamation ,which marked the beginning of the last phase of domestic slavery not only in the Sokoto Sultanate but in the entirety of Northern Nigeria. This paper, therefore, focuses on the background and consequences of the late treatment of slavery by the British in Northern Nigeria with particular reference to the Sokoto sultanate. The object is to provide an intensive analysis of this
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