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The truth remains that majority leaving are doing so emotionally against being realistic with the situation on ground.I don't believe that we have myrads of problem that are potent enough to defile solution. The day PDP was ousted, Nigeria began her journey to greatness ,or have you not given it a thought of what could have become of her if Jonathan won his second term . Honestly, brain drain would have been justified if Atiku had won. Rome wasn't built built in a day.I don't know how many understand what it takes to have a country running .Unlike now that we are having a clear policy direction which if we are disciplined to pursue will make things pleasant for us,we used to shy away from moving forward. As many as could join them should please go.

USA is going to steal me soon.

This is Apt and the list is endless, it is not ending anytime soon.

Canada please come and steal me.

Las Las na to carry juju kill Bubari, Tinubu ams all these selfish political leaders. Anybody who wants to be greedy will join them in the grave.

madridsta007:
Yes, Canada is not just taking our young people, they are taking the fattest of our crops, the best, the brightest, and the brainiest!

Not just Canada, but the US, Germany, Ireland, the UK, Australia, etc.
The colonialists think ahead of the black man, their subjects. When Obama, Clinton and the UK were helping to topple GEJ in a bloodless regime change in the connivial of Nigerians from the North and South West, you think they hadn't seen this brain drain coming? Germany and Ireland, I am told from very reliable sources, were complaining that the IT industry, which had many Nigerians, had seen Nigerians relocate back to Nigeria leaving their families in Germany and Ireland because of the economic policies of the previous government. The NHS was loosing Drs from Nigeria.

Don't blame the colonialists. This is a capitalist dog-eat-dog system. Blame the Nigerians that helped topple the last government and brought in an inept and clueless and lifeless regime.

The Jonathan government was not toppled, he lost the elections because it performed woefully in terms of security and corruption, it's not that Buhari has fared much better. The only difference was Jonathan had more money to splash around. That's how democracy is supposed to work. You lose elections if people believe you perform woefully. Buhari too should have lost the last election if not for rigging and the fact that the PDP presented an untrustworthy candidate.

I wonder how long it will take a certain parts of the country to get over Jonathan's loss, it's been 5 years and they are still wailing.

firefox4th:
The truth remains that majority leaving are doing so emotionally against being realistic with the situation on ground.I don't believe that we have myrads of problem that are potent enough to defile solution. The day PDP was ousted, Nigeria began her journey to greatness ,or have you not given it a thought of what could have become of her if Jonathan won his second term . Honestly, brain drain would have been justified if Atiku had won. Rome wasn't built built in a day.I don't know how many understand what it takes to have a country running .Unlike now that we are having a clear policy direction which if we are disciplined to pursue will make things pleasant for us,we used to shy away from moving forward. As many as could join them should please go.

Have you seen how much money these present crop of Senators and HOR members have allocated to themselves as salary, benefits and stipends?. its stomach churning for a 3rd world country. it shows how callous and unrepentant they have become. That is enough to make any one think of leaving the cesspit.
When people protest against the injustices, they get tear gassed or shot by trigger happy mopol or get locked up by the DSS. The easy way out is to leave the country for the elites.
I do not blame those leaving.

Canada please come and steal me, I want to leave this country by any means, am tired of suffering and smiling o

Every time I see threads like these , they ring so depressing sometimes. No doubt , Nigeria is facing an unprecedented decimation of its supposed middle class. the best and the brightest are leaving in droves to foreign lands, especially Canada. Nigeria's loss is Canada's gain. it is also apparent now that we need to see Nigeria for what it actually is... a poor country which relied on a bubble of high oil prices till it all came crashing down (late in Jonathan's period/Buhari's first term). what hurts most is for most of those coming into these societies, it is always hard to get to the commensurate level you were in Nigeria without changing careers and all to just survive. I don't blame those who feel they have no choice but to migrate (though whether that is what will help is another matter for debate). Not sure there is a silver bullet that will solve Nigeria's intractable issues. I fear things will need to get much worse before they get better. Tough

You people should leave me and my Canada alone o.

hmmm

i want to be stolen too o!

NaijaRoyalty:
They are not stealing your people

Your people got tired of the likes of Buhari, Tinubu and Abba Kyari rulling them and too many unfulfilled promises of APC led government .

The unemployment rate hit an all time high since buhari took mantle of leadership , poverty and frustration escalating day by day.

Everyone is tired .

Exactly so

By the grace of God
By this time next year, I will also be on my way out...

Nigeria is a failed and finished country

Can't condemn my children to a life in this fvcked zoo

aribs:
Every time I see threads like these , they ring so depressing sometimes. No doubt , Nigeria is facing an unprecedented decimation of its supposed middle class. the best and the brightest are leaving in droves to foreign lands, especially Canada. Nigeria's loss is Canada's gain. it is also apparent now that we need to see Nigeria for what it actually is... a poor country which relied on a bubble of high oil prices till it all came crashing down (late in Jonathan's period/Buhari's first term). what hurts most is for most of those coming into these societies, it is always hard to get to the commensurate level you were in Nigeria without changing careers and all to just survive. I don't blame those who feel they have no choice but to migrate (though whether that is what will help is another matter for debate). Not sure there is a silver bullet that will solve Nigeria's intractable issues. I fear things will need to get much worse before they get better. Tough

The descendants of Nigerian migrants always fit in

They are in a system that rewards hard work and not foolishness /mediocrity

GlorifiedTunde:
@OP, thanks for taking time to put this up.

I have always postponed writing about this...

Nigeria is seating on a time bomb!

The smallest unit of every society is a family, and as it stands currently the most vital and futuristic units of this nation are being carted away through "Permanent Residency" in Canada.

In order to qualify for PR, you need nothing less than 440 points, which can only be attained by young, qualified, seasoned and productive families.

These are supposed to be the future of Nigeria...

Well what can I say? The presidency believes we're to populated to lose our future!

Canada is just one country

USA IS using underhand tricks (via scholarships and all) to steal out bright minds too

Australia Is doing same
NZ as well
Even Britain (with our doctors and nurses and IT)

Germany is luring our bright minds with free post graduate education
Even South Africa has critical skills visa too stealing us all...

By time you add the figures for above
And then multiply that figure by 10 years

You will see that Nigeria is doomed to be populated by complete idiots in the next 10 years...

Una never see anything

DexterousOne:
The descendants of Nigerian migrants always fit in

They are in a system that rewards hard work and not foolishness /mediocrity

Not in all cases sir. I have seen people slip between the cracks here....lots of people with immigration wahala, challenges making ends meet due to all sorts of reasons, evicted from homes, unfufilled expectations etc.

majamajic:
the young girl that won Nigeria gold medal at last all African games

The athletic federation promised them 1m for gold medal , at the end they received 100k , she was not happy then ,

but somehow she got a call from Canada , she is now in Canada studying on scholarship and still doing track and field , she is in Morocco now representing Nigeria in on going all African games , I think it will be her last for us before she switch ,


too bad !!!

Shameless country want to do her like this kid
But those that understand human capital just lifted her up

Omooba77:
Yes, Canada is not just taking our young people, they are taking the fattest of our crops, the best, the brightest, and the brainiest!

One of them is my friend, Olufemi, (not real name). He graduated top of his class and best in the entire university! Nine years after graduation, he got married to his equally cerebral lawyer wife, and they both had fairly paying jobs that admitted them into the struggling middle class in Nigeria. A year after marriage, Olufemi, disillusioned by the state of his family’s finances, the situation in the country and the underutilisation of his skills, and intellect at his place of work, sold all his assets and relocated his young family to Canada!


Femi’s story is not unique, almost every young Nigerian professional who is not in the process of immigrating to Canada, knows a friend, family or colleague who has relocated or is in the process of relocating. The situation is alarming, almost like the biblical “rapture”: you come to work one day, you see your colleagues, you resume the next day, and they are gone!

I recently had a conversation with a millennial working in one of the big four audit firms; the conversation bordered on the number of young professionals leaving the country for Canada. He informed me that their firm had started a WhatsApp group for ex-staff members that had immigrated to Canada; as of the time of having that discussion about 70 Nigerian immigrants had joined the group. A similar conversation with another tax consultant also working in one of the “big four” revealed the same trend. According to him, almost all his colleagues in their audit department had immigrated to Canada or some part of Europe!


Why Canada, you may ask? Well, Canada has an immigration process carefully designed to attract highly skilled young professionals. It requires you to be of a certain age bracket (the younger you are, the more points you gain) to take a “Test of English”, send your academic transcripts, have certain amount in your bank account and Voila! you get a Canadian Permanent Residence.

The process, while seamless, is expensive for the average Nigerian, and is also a clear indication of the class of people they want: comfortable, highly educated, extremely skilled, young professionals, hence the people who go through this process are not poor by Nigerian standard.


As a young professional in this country, you begin to wonder if there is something wrong with you if you have not commenced your own immigration process. When you see your friends and colleagues resign from their jobs, sell their property, and leave the country; when you watch them upload pictures of their new countries of residence on social media and ‘brag’ about how the system works; when they inform you gleefully of how they have “secured” the future of their children, and invite you to join them, you wonder if, perhaps, you are not missing out on life opportunities for your own children!


Sir, the young people leaving the country are not unpatriotic, the reality is that Nigeria has not been kind to her youths! Furthermore, this brain drain did not start with young people nor did it start in this generation. When political and religious leaders send their children outside the country to be educated or when they seek heath care outside the shores of their country, they send a clear and uncontroverted message to our young people that they do not believe in the future of their country! Young people are therefore simply taking a cue from her leaders, yet, this mass immigration in recent times is nothing like what happened in the past: it is massive, and it is alarming! Young bright people immigrating to a foreign land is the most telling evidence of a failed leadership!


What state of affairs of a country would make its young people leave e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.ng: family, friends, some measure of certainty and in some cases extremely good jobs for a foreign country, full of uncertainties and oftentimes for less than inspiring jobs?

The current state! The reality is that the state of affairs of this country is extremely discouraging for young people! Our country is ridden with nepotism, insecurity, poor infrastructure, unemployment and a lot more, underemployment! What is more discouraging, and frightening is that nothing in the present seems to indicate that things will get better in the future!


Our health care system needs a complete overhaul, medical “facilities” are in dire state of disrepair. The doctor to patient ratio in public hospitals is shockingly poor, yet our doctors and health personnel continue to emigrate the country, because they are overworked, overwhelmed and underpaid!

A close friend and her younger sister were recently threatened with deportation, as she had remained in the United Kingdom, after her student visa expired. Her British friends started a petition online in a bid to keep her and her sister in the UK. There is a back story to all of this drama: my friend had lost two of her siblings who had medical conditions, mainly as a result of the poor health care system in the country and has a younger sister with the same medical condition who may have faced a similar fate, were it not for the excellent and timely treatment she had received in the UK. Unfortunately, her younger sister requires continuous health care which is simply not available in our country.


My friend, a brilliant lawyer and patriotic Nigeria, is compelled to appeal to the British Government to offer a right to remain, because her younger sister’s life quite literally depends on it!

Why do we subject our young people to this kind of humiliation? Why do we have to beg to remain in a foreign land? How does a developing nation recover from such massive evacuation of its human capital? And more importantly, how do we address this issue to reignite a sense of patriotism amongst our young people?


Quite frankly, I do not have the answers to all these questions.

I hear that there is a common joke in Toronto, that the best place to have a heart attack is in a taxi, because the driver is probably an immigrant doctor. The young people leaving are some of the smartest and the brightest, they know that adapting to a new society is hard, yet they still go! Many of them are skilled professionals, lawyers, doctors, architects, pharmacists, they know that they must write and pass expensive professional exams, yet, they still go! They hear about racism, about the cold, the lonely nights and outright discrimination, yet, they still go! The frustration and disappointment amongst young people are real and palpable, but, they believe the country has little to offer so they leave.


We must address this issue with the urgency it deserves, because at the end of the day, Nigeria is the only country we can truly call home! It is for this reason that many Nigerians in the Diaspora still choose to come back home! They still build property, start businesses and make investments in the country. They still give their children African names and follow the local news closely; many are even more abreast and passionate about the happenings in the country than those of us in the country. They are never truly gone; one “leg” in, the other out! and how can they, their parents, friends, colleagues and relatives are still here!

Yes, Canada is not just taking our young people, they are taking the fattest of our crops, the best, the brightest, and the brainiest!

One of them is my friend, Olufemi, (not real name). He graduated top of his class and best in the entire university! Nine years after graduation, he got married to his equally cerebral lawyer wife, and they both had fairly paying jobs that admitted them into the struggling middle class in Nigeria. A year after marriage, Olufemi,  disillusioned by the state of his family’s finances, the  situation in the country and the underutilisation of his skills, and intellect at his place of work, sold all his assets and relocated his young family to Canada!

Femi’s story is not unique, almost every young  Nigerian professional  who is not in the process of immigrating to Canada, knows a friend, family or colleague who  has relocated or is  in the process of relocating. The situation is alarming, almost like the biblical “rapture”: you come to work one day, you see your colleagues, you resume the next day, and they are gone!

I recently had a conversation with a millennial working in one of the big four audit firms; the conversation bordered on the number of young professionals leaving the country for Canada. He informed me that their firm had started a WhatsApp group for ex-staff members that had immigrated to Canada; as of the time of having that discussion about 70  Nigerian immigrants had joined the group. A similar conversation with another tax consultant also working in one of the “big four” revealed the same trend. According to him, almost all his colleagues in their audit department had immigrated to Canada or some part of Europe!

Why Canada, you may ask? Well, Canada has an immigration process carefully designed to attract highly skilled young professionals. It requires you to be of a certain age bracket (the younger you are, the more points you gain) to take a “Test of English”, send your academic transcripts, have certain amount in your bank account and Voila! you get a Canadian Permanent Residence.

The process, while seamless, is expensive for the average Nigerian, and is also a clear indication of the class of people they want: comfortable, highly educated, extremely skilled, young professionals, hence the people who go through this process are not poor by Nigerian standard.

As a young professional in this country, you begin to wonder if there is something wrong with you if you have not  commenced your  own immigration process. When you see your friends and colleagues resign from their jobs, sell their property, and leave the country; when you watch them upload pictures of their new countries of residence on social media and ‘brag’ about how the system works; when they inform you gleefully of how they have “secured” the future of their children, and invite you to join them, you wonder if, perhaps, you are not missing out on life opportunities for your own children!

Sir, the young people leaving the country are not unpatriotic, the reality is that  Nigeria has not been kind to her youths! Furthermore, this brain drain did not start with young people nor did it start in this generation. When political  and  religious leaders send  their children  outside the country to be educated or when they  seek heath care outside the shores of their country, they send a clear and uncontroverted message to our young people  that they do not  believe  in the future of their country! Young people are therefore simply taking a cue from her leaders,  yet, this  mass immigration  in recent times  is nothing like  what happened in the past: it is massive, and it is alarming! Young bright people immigrating to a foreign land is the most telling evidence of a failed leadership!

What state of affairs of a country would make its young people leave e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.ng: family, friends,  some measure of certainty and in some cases extremely good jobs for  a foreign country,  full of uncertainties and oftentimes for less than inspiring jobs?

The current state! The reality is that the state of affairs of this country is extremely discouraging for young people! Our country is ridden with nepotism, insecurity, poor infrastructure, unemployment and a lot more, underemployment! What is more discouraging, and frightening is that nothing in the present seems to indicate that things will get better in the future!

Our health care system needs a complete overhaul, medical “facilities” are in dire state of disrepair. The doctor to patient ratio in public hospitals is shockingly poor, yet our doctors and health personnel continue to emigrate the country, because they are overworked, overwhelmed and underpaid!

A close friend and her younger sister were recently threatened with deportation, as she had remained in the United Kingdom, after her student visa expired. Her British friends started a petition online in a bid to keep her and her sister in the UK. There is a back story to all of this drama: my friend had lost two of her siblings who had medical conditions, mainly as a result of the poor health care system in the country and has a younger sister with the same medical condition who may have faced a similar fate, were it not for the excellent and timely treatment she had received in the UK. Unfortunately, her younger sister requires continuous health care which is simply not available in our country.

My friend, a brilliant lawyer and patriotic Nigeria, is compelled to appeal to the British Government to offer a right to remain, because her younger sister’s life quite literally depends on it!

Why do we subject our young people to this kind of humiliation? Why do we have to beg to remain in a foreign land? How does a developing nation recover from such massive evacuation of its human capital? And  more importantly, how do we address this issue to  reignite a sense of patriotism amongst our young people?

Quite frankly, I do not have the answers to all these questions.

I hear that there is a common joke in Toronto, that the best place to have a heart attack is in a taxi, because the driver is probably an immigrant doctor. The young people leaving are  some of the smartest and the brightest, they know that adapting to a new society is hard, yet they still go!  Many of them are skilled professionals, lawyers, doctors, architects, pharmacists, they know that they must write and pass  expensive professional exams, yet, they still go! They hear about racism, about the cold, the lonely nights and outright discrimination, yet, they still go! The frustration and disappointment amongst young people are real and palpable, but, they believe the country has little to offer so they leave.

We must address this issue with  the urgency it deserves, because at the end of the day, Nigeria is the only country we can truly call home! It is for this reason that many Nigerians in the Diaspora still choose to come back home! They still build  property, start businesses and make investments in the country. They still give their children African names and follow the local news closely; many are even more abreast and passionate about the happenings in the country than those of us in the country. They are never truly gone; one “leg” in, the other out! and how can they, their parents, friends, colleagues and relatives are still here!

Canada’s gain is Nigeria’s loss. It is impossible to stop this trend completely, sadly, but we can discourage it by creating a more enabling environment for everyone. We would need to do this gradually,  perhaps, we can start with our health care, with improved power and security of lives and property!

More importantly, young people need to sense a clear redirection in the affairs of the country; when this is done, maybe, they will remain in the country. But first, we must start! The sooner we begin, the better.

https://punchng.com/canada-is-stealing-our-young-people/amp

Abeg keep this epistle to romania inside ur pocket.
Nigeria dey kilk dreams, canada dey steal people wey get dream and help them archieve it.

This wan no be country!

aribs:
Not in all cases sir. I have seen people slip between the cracks here....lots of people with immigration wahala, challenges making ends meet due to all sorts of reasons, evicted from homes, unfufilled expectations etc.

Its still better than failed fvcked Nigeria

I have seen with my eyes how Nigerians who are serious succeed out there...

Nigeria will sink further into the abyss until we use our sense

Nbote:
Steal who How? Are we complaining There are still a lot of us who are planning to b stolen oo

They even had the gut to put this post in front page.. Come and steal me o. I'm tired of waiting

DexterousOne:
Its still better than failed fvcked Nigeria

I have seen with my eyes how Nigerians who are serious succeed out there...

Nigeria will sink further into the abyss until we use our sense

Of course there are success stories. Just putting it out there for anyone who thinks relocating alone will solve their issues. Nigeria, to me what needs to be done is clear. The question is are we able, leadership and citizens alike, to do it ? Till that time

MIKOLOWISKA:
tired or lazy to fix the problem

What is this one saying

Sè ori eleyi n kpe sha?

Sannisege:
Small boy. Did emigration start during Buhari/APC Government?

It got much worse during the reign of the idiot economic terrorist we have as president

I'm very much available and willing to be stolen, let them locate me fast

Ori baba e like gbale

DexterousOne:
What is this one saying

Sè ori eleyi n kpe sha?

Stealing is a strong word..more like attracting

Interesting read

I recently had a conversation with a millennial working in one of the big four audit firms; the conversation bordered on the number of young professionals leaving the country for Canada. He informed me that their firm had started a WhatsApp group for ex-staff members that had immigrated to Canada; as of the time of having that discussion about 70 Nigerian immigrants had joined the group
Sir, please do you know if the WhatsApp group they created is still active ? If yes, is it open to someone that's not a staff of the said company? See! I'm intelligent, I have ND, HND and B.eng all in Mechanical Engineering and the current state of things in this country now has made me take a decision of going into coding but most importantly, I want to leave this country for a brighter future

DexterousOne:
It got much worse during the reign of the idiot economic terrorist we have as president

Give us the statistics so we can compare, or did you just pull figures out of your nose?

aribs:
Every time I see threads like these , they ring so depressing sometimes. No doubt , Nigeria is facing an unprecedented decimation of its supposed middle class. the best and the brightest are leaving in droves to foreign lands, especially Canada. Nigeria's loss is Canada's gain. it is also apparent now that we need to see Nigeria for what it actually is... a poor country which relied on a bubble of high oil prices till it all came crashing down (late in Jonathan's period/Buhari's first term). what hurts most is for most of those coming into these societies, it is always hard to get to the commensurate level you were in Nigeria without changing careers and all to just survive. I don't blame those who feel they have no choice but to migrate (though whether that is what will help is another matter for debate). Not sure there is a silver bullet that will solve Nigeria's intractable issues. I fear things will need to get much worse before they get better. Tough

Thank you for this. Whether it would get better is another issue. I was told it would get better when I left secondary school in 1999. Infact, it got worse. We run one of the most if not the most expensive government in the world with nothing to show for it, and sadly, thw ruling class do not care. Is like they dont mind if the country crash and burn with the monumental looting and stealing of public funds in the guise of stipends and remuneration. check HOR, Senate, Legislative houses etc.
The painful truth is that relocation might work for some and might not work for others even after changing careers. That is why it's not easy uprooting one's family and relocating. Some oyinbos can't even imagine why anyone will leave their family and homeland to relocate thousands of miles to another, but they dont know what is pushing them out. Yoi see why IPOBs transferred their aggression on the former deputy senate president. If the country had been there for them all along, Nnamdi Kanu's IPOB would have been dead on arrival.

salford:
Thank you for this. Whether it would get better is another issue. I was told it would get better when I left secondary school in 1999. Infact, it got worse. We run one of the most if not the most expensive government in the world with nothing to show for it, and sadly, thw ruling class do not care. Is like they dont mind if the country crash and burn with the monumental looting and stealing of public funds in the guise of stipends and remuneration. check HOR, Senate, Legislative houses etc.
The painful truth is that relocation might work for some and might not work for others even after changing careers. That is why it's not easy uprooting one's family and relocating. Some oyinbos can't even imagine why anyone will leave their family and homeland to relocate thousands of miles to another, but they dont know what is pushing them out. Yoi see why IPOBs transferred their aggression on the former deputy senate president. If the country had been there for them all along, Nnamdi Kanu's IPOB would have been dead on arrival.

You have said it all. it is quite challenging to live in a society that seemingly operates with different rules than what one is used to . some will adapt and thrive and some would not. The matter just tire person. Everyday you get calls asking this same relocation question, i just need to hang a shingle out and call myself "immigration consultant".

anungangampu:
Even if am comfortable in Nigeria, the only reason i will prefer to migrate is as a result of security reasons... Not just that those incharge of your safety are the ones to be avoided but also that everyone is now a menace, a suspect due to hardship.

The more i stay here the more i start seing shady deals as a way to survive which i believe is not so out there.

I realy want to live a decent life and i cant cleary see how living decent would favour me in this country where everyone is expected to have a least instict of a crook mentality to survive.

I dont want to survive, i want to live.

You could not have said it any other way. We all want to live decent, but with the way things are in Nigeria, where you're expected to see your crookedness as being smart, you'll just loose your way. The religious bodies are not even bothered about it, all they know is money.