Brain drain in every field of study in Nigeria had been so commonplace since independence in 1960 because the indigenous government could not offer adequate educational facilities needed by the youthful and exuberant population.
In droves Nigerian youths took off to Britain and other European countries to look for greener pastures. As at that period in history, foreign countries encouraged migration to boost their workforce and they had no reason to travel through the Sahara Desert or Libya, neither flaunt illegal papers nor travel documents as originals to get to their various destinations.
Visa was generously issued to all who would rather go to other countries and develop hosts economies to the detriment of their own native lands.


MIGRATION FROM NIGERIA TO OTHER COUNTRIES EVENTUALLY TOOK DESPERATE DIMENSIONS!

Following the military interregnum from 1966-1979, Biafra War, July 1967-Jan. 1970, migration of youths from Nigeria took fearful dimension to escape the bloody, cruel, gruesome and very devastating atrocities that accompanied the calamities!
In addition, maladministration coupled with gross mismanagement of the economy, abuse of power and institutional endemic corruption became the hallmark of the Military which had no qualms about the most unfortunate plight of the citizenry!
Thousands of thousands of the desperate youths still departed the shores of Nigeria especially when the twin evil of tribalism and religion were surreptitiously introduced to aggravate conflicts through persecution and deprivation/violations of fundamental human rights by pseudo administrators in government!
As at June 2022, there were about fifteen to twenty million Nigerians domicile in the UK, USA, and South Africa.

ADVANTAGES OF DIASPORA REMITTANCES!

Diaspora remittances had always represented a buffer zone to Nigeria's economy whenever it is at its lowest ebb. At all times since independence these monetary transactions had provided the basic amenities which government at all levels failed to supply the Citizens.
Diaspora Nigerians in the year 2012, contributed a whooping sum of USD$12 billion dollars, to the Nigerian economy, annual revenue more than those of 34 States put together! Annual remmitance is pegged at USD$25billion.
However not all those who migrated to foreign countries were good ambassadors of their native lands. Some of them did drugs and committed nefarious crimes but were always fished out to be lawfully punished because of the well-established institutions of law enforcement in those countries.
But all over the world patriotic Nigerian migrants have distinguished themselves and made the country very proud as established professionals in medicine, engineering, science and politics.


NIGERIAN-AMERICANS THAT HAVE MADE NIGERIA PROUD!

In the recently concluded Tuesday 8th November 2022 Midterm elections in the United States of America, eight Nigerian-Americans were re-elected to serve to the end of the first four-year-term of President Joe Biden.
According to the Nigerian American Public Affairs Committee (NAPAC), list release the Nigerian Americans have won legislative seats in the United States midterm elections.
They won seats in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and the District of Columbia DC.
The Federal Government of Nigeria and President Muhammadu Buhari have congratulated the politicians on their successes.


THERE IS NOW AN URGENT NEED FOR DIASPORA VOTING!

Diaspora voting was deliberately opposed by past Nigerian administrations because of the sophistication of the Nigerian- Americans and their counterparts across the world who have been exposed to modern art of digital and electronic voting and who could easily influence innovations that would permanently stop electoral malpractices in their native land.

At this very time of the downturn of Nigeria's economy with a deficit 2022 Budget that cannot even fund Capital projects but can only pay salaries and allowances with borrowed funds from other nations, the Federal Government needs the assistance and expertise of Diaspora Nigerians.



NNPCL AND THE OIL THIEVES!

Oil theft had been another misnomer which has robbed Nigeria from enjoying the windfall which resulted from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in almost nine months or that Nigerians are not being told the whole truth about the daily liftings and the gains that accrued to the nation in the export of crude oil business.
Recently Mr. President/Minister of Petroleum and all his lieutenants in the Oil and Gas industry have all agreed that subsidy on petroleum products, which has run into over NGN2.8 trillion Naira between Feburary2021- June2022, a period of 17 months is the greatest fraud of the century between NNPC marketers and their contractors.

Another trending story is that an illegal connecting line of crude oil from export terminal into high Sea had been discovered by NNPCL after nine years of the bare-faced robbery of the only national asset that fetched foreign exchange earnings!
Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), in the month of October 2022, disclosed that an illegal oil pipeline connecting directly to the Sea was recently discovered!

He told the Nigerian Senate that the four-kilometre or 2.5-mile connection from the Forcados Export Terminals which typically exported around 250,000 barrels per day of oil into the Sea was discovered during a clampdown on oil theft operations!
According to him oil theft in the country has been going on for over 22 years but the dimension and the rate it has assumed in recent times was unprecedented.
He assured the lawmakers that his agency in collaboration with relevant security agencies had clamped down on the economic saboteurs and within a period of six weeks: 395 illegal refineries were deactivated, 274 reservoirs destroyed, 1561 metal tanks destroyed and 49 trucks seized!
He said oil thieves usually tapped land-based pipelines to siphon oil undetected but that an illegal line in the ocean was unusual and suggested a more sophisticated theft operation!
Diaspora economic power brokers must be encouraged to still support government at this crucial time of national debt embarrassment; the law makers needed to harvest their expertise in the Oil and Gas industry and to encourage them to invest in the coming years by ensuring that Diaspora Voting was firmly entrenched in the new PARLIAMENTARY UNICAMERAL CONSTITUTION THROUGH REFERENDUM THAT WILL PRODUCE A PRIME MINISTER IN THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS!

All hands must be on deck to salvage what was left of this great nation which money bag politicians have tried to destroy at all cost.
Where there is a will, there is a way!


[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.