[b] Because of our relaxed immigration policies created by corruption, poor leadership and lack of visionary leaders in government, Nigeria is a dumping ground for so many foreigners which find the country as an easy haven they can get what they want at the expense of the suffering unemployed Nigerian graduates. You can find the lebanese, chinese, indians, korean, and so many west african citizens.

However, on the sharp contrast Nigerian are been deported from various countries across the globe. Nigeria is among the group of counties that are excluded from the relaxed visa opportunities some countries national enjoy.

Only in Nigeria, we can find some foreigner working as expatriate in positions there are qualified Nigerian. If you investigate properly, you will discover that these expatriate are engaged on jobs so many Nigerians are qualified to do even much more better.

These company because of their quest and desire to have foreigner among their workforce organize fictitious interview and make the federal government to believe that no Nigerian possess the experience and qualification to do the job hence they are bringing a foreigner. it is all false and lies, Nigerian hold better qualification and experience than the expatriate. Meanwhile if they employ a Nigerian they will not even demand for the salary benefits that they are throwing at these chinese, lebanese, koreans etc. Most companies attract these foreign expatriate with juicy and elaborate salaries, fantastic housing, AC powered car,domestic helper and security personnel. An opportunity they feel reluctant to give to Nigerian.

Some companies even boast before the Nigerian media that they have foreigner among their workforce.What a shame! There are so many reasons for this and one reason can be attributed to the colonial mentality we have had all this years.

Meanwhile if a Nigerian goes abroad they can not find similar good job despite their qualification.They make do with menial job such as dish washing,cleaning and gabbage packing in europe and english teaching jobs in Thailand, Indonesia, China and Brazil

Some of these companies goes out of their way to bribe the Nigerian immigration official to enable them bring in foreigners to live and work here. And if you look at the qualification of these foreigner you will know that their qualification are not better off than that of the Nigerian.

The funny aspect of our national problem is that these company feel they are better off with a foreigner than a Nigerian professional. [/b]

naijaspeak: [b] Because of our relaxed immigration policies created by corruption, poor leadership and lack of visionary leaders in government, Nigeria is a dumping ground for so many foreigners which find the country as an easy haven they can get what they want at the expense of the suffering unemployed Nigerian graduates. You can find the lebanese, chinese, indians, korean, and so many west african citizens.

However, on the sharp contrast Nigerian are been deported from various countries across the globe. Nigeria is among the group of counties that are excluded from the relaxed visa opportunities some countries national enjoy.

Only in Nigeria, we can find some foreigner working as expatriate in positions there are qualified Nigerian. If you investigate properly, you will discover that these expatriate are engaged on jobs so many Nigerians are qualified to do even much more better.

These company because of their quest and desire to have foreigner among their workforce organize fictitious interview and make the federal government to believe that no Nigerian possess the experience and qualification to do the job hence they are bringing a foreigner. it is all false and lies, Nigerian hold better qualification and experience than the expatriate. Meanwhile if they employ a Nigerian they will not even demand for the salary benefits that they are throwing at these chinese, lebanese, koreans etc. Most companies attract these foreign expatriate with juicy and elaborate salaries, fantastic housing, AC powered car,domestic helper and security personnel. An opportunity they feel reluctant to give to Nigerian.

Some companies even boast before the Nigerian media that they have foreigner among their workforce.What a shame! There are so many reasons for this and one reason can be attributed to the colonial mentality we have had all this years.

Meanwhile if a Nigerian goes abroad they can not find similar good job despite their qualification.They make do with menial job such as dish washing,cleaning and gabbage packing in europe and english teaching jobs in Thailand, Indonesia, China and Brazil

Some of these companies goes out of their way to bribe the Nigerian immigration official to enable them bring in foreigners to live and work here. And if you look at the qualification of these foreigner you will know that their qualification are not better off than that of the Nigerian.

The funny aspect of our national problem is that these company feel they are better off with a foreigner than a Nigerian professional. [/b]

OP,
A major reason why so many companies especially oil and gas, construction companies choose to employ such useless expatriate into some positions that Nigeria as a country has many competence and qualified professional is due to government policy. What i mean is that for example, in the oil and gas industry, companies are mostly awarded contract base on CTR (Cost, Time and Resources) which is simply called Hourly rate. A Nigeria engineer with over 20 years experience hourly rate can be $49 while an Indian with 4 years experience hourly rate is mostly about &138. See the weekly calculation of what each will bring to your income in a week base on working on a project 8 hours per day and 5 days a week.

Hourly Rate Day Week Month (22days)
1)Nigeria Engineer $49 $392 $1,960 $8,642.00
2) TCN $138 $1104 $5,520 $24,288.00
So if you as a businessman and you have such options, which will you choose? Mind you, to get a Nigeria Engineer with close to 10 or 20 years work experience is not easily available and also does not come cheap... you may be looking at minimum of N650,000 monthly salary while an Indian expatriate with over 10 years experience is in the range of $5,000 to $12,000..... Till government work on this policy to encourage local resources, things will continue to be like that....