Top Igbos have been leaving Nigeria to foreign lands in their numbers.

They are doing so because of lack of opportunities in their home country,as a result of political issues.

They move abroad where their skills are highly needed to the detriment of Nigeria.

NIgeria will suffer ultimately at the end.

Take a look.

Harvard-trained Erudite Nigerian scholar, Professor Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, Returns to Harvard as a Senior Fellow

welukwa Ofodile a Senior Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government for the 2021-22 academic year. The mission of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government is to advance the state of knowledge and policy analysis concerning some of society’s most challenging problems at the interface of the public and private sectors. At the Kennedy School of Government, Professor Ofodile’s research will focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate accountability, and corporate governance more broadly. She will also spend time teaching and mentoring students. One of Ofodile’s goals is to use her time at the Kennedy School to broaden knowledge about the emerging and changing legal framework for CSR and the positive as well as negative impact of business operations on human rights and sustainability across global value chains. Ofodile also hopes to stimulate debate about how businesses in all economic sectors can be powerful forces of change and sustainable development.

Professor Ofodile holds the E.J. Ball Endowed Chair at the University of Arkansas School of Law. She previously held the Arkansas Bar Foundation Endowed Chair at the same university. She is also an affiliated professor of African and African American Studies, at the University of Arkansas’s J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Ofodile’s teaching, research, and scholarship focuses on international investment law, intellectual property law, international dispute settlement, international trade law, agriculture and food law, corporate social responsibility, as well as technology and the law. The Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law where Professor Ofodile teaches had nothing but praises for Professor Uche. “This prestigious appointment is a wonderful recognition of professor Ofodile’s work, and I could not be prouder to have her on our faculty,” said Dean Margaret Sova McCabe in a press release. “Her research interest and work showcase her impressive standing in the global community, and significantly enhance School of Law’s global reach,” Dean McCabe added.

Professor Ofodile serves on many international bodies. She is on the Editorial Advisory Committee of International Legal Materials, a publication of the American Society of International Law, and currently serves as a book review editor for The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals. She is an active member of the American Bar Association Section of International law and has served the organization in numerous leadership positions including as co-chair of the International Investment and Development Committee, co-chair of the Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility, and vice-chair of the International Intellectual Property Committee. Professor Ofodile has also served as the Secretary General of the African Society of International Law.

https://www.africanleadershipmagazine.co.uk/meet-nigerias-uche-ofodile-named-senior-fellow-by-harvards-kennedy-school-of-government/

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Top Igbos have been leaving Nigeria to foreign lands in their numbers.

They are doing so because of lack of opportunities in their home country,as a result of political issues.

They move abroad where their skills are highly needed to the detriment of Nigeria.

NIgeria will suffer ultimately at the end.

Take a look.

Harvard-trained Erudite Nigerian scholar, Professor Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, Returns to Harvard as a Senior Fellow

welukwa Ofodile a Senior Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government for the 2021-22 academic year. The mission of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government is to advance the state of knowledge and policy analysis concerning some of society’s most challenging problems at the interface of the public and private sectors. At the Kennedy School of Government, Professor Ofodile’s research will focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate accountability, and corporate governance more broadly. She will also spend time teaching and mentoring students. One of Ofodile’s goals is to use her time at the Kennedy School to broaden knowledge about the emerging and changing legal framework for CSR and the positive as well as negative impact of business operations on human rights and sustainability across global value chains. Ofodile also hopes to stimulate debate about how businesses in all economic sectors can be powerful forces of change and sustainable development.

Professor Ofodile holds the E.J. Ball Endowed Chair at the University of Arkansas School of Law. She previously held the Arkansas Bar Foundation Endowed Chair at the same university. She is also an affiliated professor of African and African American Studies, at the University of Arkansas’s J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Ofodile’s teaching, research, and scholarship focuses on international investment law, intellectual property law, international dispute settlement, international trade law, agriculture and food law, corporate social responsibility, as well as technology and the law. The Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law where Professor Ofodile teaches had nothing but praises for Professor Uche. “This prestigious appointment is a wonderful recognition of professor Ofodile’s work, and I could not be prouder to have her on our faculty,” said Dean Margaret Sova McCabe in a press release. “Her research interest and work showcase her impressive standing in the global community, and significantly enhance School of Law’s global reach,” Dean McCabe added.

Professor Ofodile serves on many international bodies. She is on the Editorial Advisory Committee of International Legal Materials, a publication of the American Society of International Law, and currently serves as a book review editor for The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals. She is an active member of the American Bar Association Section of International law and has served the organization in numerous leadership positions including as co-chair of the International Investment and Development Committee, co-chair of the Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility, and vice-chair of the International Intellectual Property Committee. Professor Ofodile has also served as the Secretary General of the African Society of International Law.

https://www.africanleadershipmagazine.co.uk/meet-nigerias-uche-ofodile-named-senior-fellow-by-harvards-kennedy-school-of-government/

US hails Oby Ezekwesili as ex-minister joins Yale University

The American government has congratulated Obiageli ‘Oby’ Ezekwesili who joined the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.

Now a senior fellow, the former Education Minister will tutor and mentor post-graduate students during the 2021 fall semester.

She will teach courses on Democracy and Africa’s Political Distortions, and Resolving Africa’s Economic Philosophy Dilemma.

“A great example of burgeoning Nigerian-American ties!”, the United States’ reaction added.

Ezekwesili and five others joined the institution, Peter Salovey, President of Yale University announced in a statement.

The 2021 senior fellows include Staffan de Mistura (Italy & Sweden), Jessica Faieta (Ecuador), Anne Patterson, David Brooks and Jessica Seddon (United States).

They are economic experts, astute commentators, publishers, bestselling authors, ambassadors, and academics.

Salovey said the global figures, leading in various fields of international affairs, will spend a year or semester at Yale.

Ezekwesili, a former World Bank Vice President, is Senior Economic Adviser to the Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative and a co-founder and pioneer director of Transparency International (TI).

She was head of Nigeria’s budget monitoring and price intelligence unit, where she earned the alias “madam due process”.

Ezekwesili also served as Minister of Solid Minerals, chairperson of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), among others local and international positions.

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US hails Oby Ezekwesili as ex-minister joins Yale University

The American government has congratulated Obiageli ‘Oby’ Ezekwesili who joined the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.

Now a senior fellow, the former Education Minister will tutor and mentor post-graduate students during the 2021 fall semester.

She will teach courses on Democracy and Africa’s Political Distortions, and Resolving Africa’s Economic Philosophy Dilemma.

“A great example of burgeoning Nigerian-American ties!”, the United States’ reaction added.

Ezekwesili and five others joined the institution, Peter Salovey, President of Yale University announced in a statement.

The 2021 senior fellows include Staffan de Mistura (Italy & Sweden), Jessica Faieta (Ecuador), Anne Patterson, David Brooks and Jessica Seddon (United States).

They are economic experts, astute commentators, publishers, bestselling authors, ambassadors, and academics.

Salovey said the global figures, leading in various fields of international affairs, will spend a year or semester at Yale.

Ezekwesili, a former World Bank Vice President, is Senior Economic Adviser to the Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative and a co-founder and pioneer director of Transparency International (TI).

She was head of Nigeria’s budget monitoring and price intelligence unit, where she earned the alias “madam due process”.

Ezekwesili also served as Minister of Solid Minerals, chairperson of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), among others local and international positions.

Chikwe Ihekweazu is a Nigerian epidemiologist and public health physician who is the current Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the agency responsible for protecting public health and safety through the control and prevention of communicable diseases in Nigeria



The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed the head of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, as a top official.

Ihekweazu will resume as WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Emergency Intelligence from November 1, 2021.

The NCDC DG will lead the work on strengthening pandemic and epidemic intelligence globally.

Ihekweazu will oversee the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin, Germany.

Nigeria doesn't deserve them. They can't stay, because they're not a product of quota system.