Thursday 13 August 2015

Nigeria is a sleeping giant- Prof. Milton Iyoha

... says Academics are Patriots.
... argues that Nigeria must grow rapidly to achieve vision 2020.

Professor Milton Iyoha is a World Class Professor. A product of the University of Yale, Prof. Iyoha was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1970 to 1975. A former Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., he joined the department of Economics and Statistics, University of Benin as a Senior Lecturer and pioneer Head of  Department in 1975 and rose to the rank of full Professor in 1980. 



He is also a former Dean of  the Faculty of Social Sciences in the same University. He has served as a Consultant to the IMF,  ILO, AERC, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Fund, UNECA, the West African Monetary Institute, WAIFEM, the NCEMA and many others. In this interview with the Economist Nigeria, he bares his mind on burning national economic issues and proffers solutions to the country's perennial economic challenges.