Australian company Bega Bionutrients has introduced the first microencapsulated lactoferrin known as Inferrin, which is a division of Bega Bio that specializes in health and nutritional ingredients. There has been a decline in Nigerian knowledge since 1980, according to a corpus of research. As a result of starvation during the civil war, there was speculation that the population had decreased as well. In the 1980s, Nigeria had the lowest percentage of native engineers of any Third World country, according to research. English is the language of instruction beyond primary school, and many university faculty have expressed their difficulty understanding their students' written work because of poor communication in the classroom. As a result, a sizable portion of the country's workforce and recent graduates are functionally illiterate.