Somebody raise an issue sometime ago, saying all Nigerian Engineers and Scientist are useless and cannot do anything. I have Nigerian friends that have gone to the likes of Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, Yale, Imperial College, ETH Zurich, Delft University of Technology, Caltech, UIUC etc and all other big schools you can think about which are power house of Engineering and did exceptionally well in their programme but still find it difficult finding the right environment to practice their profession and making a reasonable impact in the Nigerian technology industry. Some even find it difficult getting job in Nigeria because of the nepotism, favoritism, quota system and other vices that limit economic development by putting incompetent people in high position when there are actually well educated and exposed professionals who have better training and experience.
PTDF is the most useless programme of the Nigerian government, cos they train Nigerians in good universities abroad, refuse to give them work and make many of them to be useful to other civilized countries other than Nigeria, while the Nigerian government dole out millions of dollars to these foreign countries(UK especially) to help them further develop their educational system. Why dont the federal government divert all those money spent on PTDF in the Nigerian universities? Imagine spending 10million naira for an MSc student and atleast 300 students are given scholarship to study in British universities per year. 300 students @ 10million per student is 3billion naira (20 million US Dollars) going to the UK economy every year for the past 8yrs or so and we all complain that the educational system in Nigeria is bad. I have not even talked about the NDDC scholarship which is awarded to over 200 students yearly, the Rivers State government scholarship, Delta State goverment scholarship, and other government scholarships. These are real capital flight out of the country and I dont know if it is that difficult for the dumbest educated man to be able to do simple economic analysis and see what is happening.
Government primary and secondary schools in Nigeria are completely dead and they are suppose to be the foundation of the success of our educational system and hence our economy and future. It is time we start asking government to be accountable for our future and ask them why despite all the money spent training Nigerians abroad, we still cannot manufacture anything. Is it not a sign of mis priority by the government?
The oil companies refuse to set up sound training centers in Nigeria and prefer to send their staff abroad for training at the expense of the development of the Nigerian oil and gas industry. All these training involves huge capital flight leaving the country to further develop the economy of these foreign countries. I can go on and on analysing government complete lost of sight, priority and focus based on how they have been handling economic and national matters since I was born.
How long do we continue living and tolerating these? The blackman will continue to suffer in the hands of the white man until we can show the world we are not the savage they think we are by helping our people not to see reason to want to travel out of Africa at all cost when abroad actually have little to offer them, and also eliminate the poverty sight we always see about East African where extreme poverty is all we see hear about.

First things first. Nigeria needs to define its purpose for existence. That's the way forward.

Nigeria is like a joke to me, no system and corruption is alarming, poster is right their is no environment for people to practice their profession is a failed state and we got government officials with no knowledge look at national assembly packed with bunch of men and women that lack sense of leadership,and most of them always say that Nigeria is a difficult country to govern!! what do they expect from a country that don't have light,roads,jobs,school,good health service,security, etc etc etc etc i mean there is a lot of problem in the country, don't have one single system that is working. forget about our primary and secondary school cos is about to happen the country is a big joke,