Phillip Emeagwalli
Nigerian-American Professional Computer Scientist

"Failure to massively deploy computers and IT related solutions to the nation’s youths and schools at all the levels of education with immediate effect will spell doom for capacities efficiency and quality of production systems in Nigeria industries in the next 36 months.

Three years from now, globalization would have become so formidable to the extent that the production system in smaller countries with high PC density in their educational institutions will out-perform those who might have neglected technology skill acquisition in their development process.

During the last three decades education went through a dramatic transformation and change, due to various predictions on the consequences of the Information Technology and/or lack of it in education. Central to these changes was the need to intensify and promote secure education school with particular reference to secondary schools

My seven-year old son has his own computer at home and has one at his school.

As a graduate student, I had access to a dozen supercomputers that cost five to 30 million dollars a piece.

Kayode Ojo, the national president of the Nigerian Association of Computer Science Students, sent me an email complaining about "students who go through universities for 4 years without touching a personal computer."

An entire generation of 50 million Nigerian school age children are being undereducated. Children are our future, not petroleum. You can predict the future of a country by the quality of education its youth is receiving."

Source: The Guardian Newspaper. Nigeria

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