₦airaland Forum

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 .

See this PDP agent deceiving himself

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.

Those Oyibo people should go sit down

How did theur ancestors get to Canada Auz and USA in the first place?

No be jaapa them sef jaa?

DexterousOne:
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

And to think people are not even worried about this grim trend

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.

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Nigeria's government must not wake up, biko!
Do u really think they give a damn? Even if 30 million Nigerians leave today, their departure won't be felt; this emigration of a thing is a kind of population control for Nigeria

akintunde63:
Nigeria's government must not wake up, biko!
Do u really think they give a damn? Even if 30 million Nigerians leave today, their departure won't be felt; this emigration of a thing is a kind of population control for Nigeria

Do you understand the implications of this mass exodus of SKILLED Nigerians to all over the globe?

Remember Nigeria does not even have enough SKILLED AND USEFUL people in the first place
Most of the population are dead wood firewood


The ones that could help the country somewhat are the ones fleeing in droves

That should scare anyone who is aware

They are not stealing, we are the one selling. What you don't value you don't keep for long. So is our case. But the useless Nigerian government is unbothered.

Canada Express entry program is nothing but a smart and cunning move by the Canadian government to bring educated immigrants to do jobs White Canadians wouldn't do, most of them that left are regretting their move. A few percentage might break through the glass ceiling but the vast majority wouldn't.

bayulll011:
oh God here we go again.
which government,that almost ruin the nations with serious lootings and massive corruptions.
see that one in abuja is unresponsive and slow and pathetic in decision making but will rate him far better than the ineffectual buffoon.
if you know what those guys and his vroonics did to our financial sectors it will take 2 decades before we recover,you know nothing seriously

And you think buhari is not doing worse.?
Why do you think the economy is far worse off now than under Jonathan.?
Gross mismanagement and looting. Even the taxes we got under Jonathan is far greater than what buhari is getting under the notoriously corrupt tunde Fowler.

The only reason why you believe Jonathan is worse is that his govt leaked like a sieve.
All information went freely to the press. After all, he signed the freedom of information act.

Abba kyari on the other hand is running a black hole.
Monumental corruption is hidden. The few that came out leaves us spell bound.
You would realise the full depth of the corruption if we get an opposition govt in 2023.

planetx:
Canada Express entry program is nothing but a smart and cunning move by the Canadian government to bring educated immigrants to do jobs White Canadians wouldn't do, most of them that left are regretting their move. A few percentage might break through the glass ceiling but the vast majority wouldn't.

Their children will break through

And many many immigrants succeed in Canada
But after much hustle and jumping hoops
It's still better than condemning the fate of your kids to a failed country being ruined everyday by a kunu sipping economic terrorist in Abuja

Those of una wey wan base for Nigeria with your kids
Good for una
As for me and mine
We are OUT

kunletexs:
They are not stealing, we are the one selling. What you don't value you don't keep for long. So is our case. But the useless Nigerian government is unbothered.

How will they bother?

Omooba77:
I Go better

That is the language I have been hearing since I was a kid now am a full grown adult and I still hear this talk. Wake up and smell the coffee, Nigeria is not and I repeat is not going to get better till the people rise and take back their country from those that have kidnapped her and have held her captive for so long.
Have you not realized that its the same circle of malevolent men that determines who rules this country?

DexterousOne:
Those Oyibo people should go sit down

How did theur ancestors get to Canada Auz and USA in the first place?

No be jaapa them sef jaa?

After one or two generation, the current generation won't know why people travel thousands of miles to relocate. Most of their ancestors moved when famine and hardship was dealing with them in Europe.
When I was schooling in UK, i had two flatmate born of Nigerian parents that have never been to Nigeria. They sometimes ask me strange questions about Nigeria and can't wrap their head why I came to spend thousands of pounds for a degree program in the UK when I could get it for cheap in Nigeria.

salford:
After one or two generation, the current generation won't know why people travel thousands of miles to relocate. Most of their ancestors moved when famine and hardship was dealing with them in Europe.
When I was schooling in UK, i had two flatmate born of Nigerian parents that have never been to Nigeria. They sometimes ask me strange questions about Nigeria and can't wrap their head why I came to spend thousands of pounds for a degree program in the UK when I could get it for cheap in Nigeria.

Exactly

Person wey run know wey e pinch us

IntrovertedK:
Nonsense opinion.

Disprove his opinion with yours.

Name calling is a sign of intelligence deficit.

Say something reasonable, make a point to counter his own. You may be right or wrong.

Funkybabee:
lols...stealing you mean, do you pray for your kids to suffer during the time of schooling, searching for school fees, taking garri all day just to survive, using lamp and putting leg into bowl of water to read at night, lecturer assualts to women up and down, giving f just because u don't buy their handouts, missing results up and down that cost you another extral year, giving you undesire course to study like zoology, 5 years strike at home before graduation.

panpan bari re ni graduates and serve your country and later on, no job. whereby useless firms are using brilliants people to build their firms with just 30k salary that can be deducted if you don't meet target.

no respect to graduates talk more of certificate, tell me did hou wish such for your kids.


For me I don't wish such infact I pray they steal me immediately after graduations in other to rest from this so called country

You have talk am finish

Dolorsa:
They haven't even started. The people interested in relocating to Canada are more than the people already in Canada. Real fact.

Fact

PeacenLove2:
It's very true. You will be shocked at the number of What's app Groups for former colleagues. These are big companies in the country. By the time we wake up, eh, na only agberos go remain for this country.

If Canada do an entry system for agberos too, nobody go remain. Kontinu!

But on a more serious note, there is fire on the mountain. Today's government needs some drastic programs to address the situation, everything OP mentioned. The entire institution is currently a mess. God help us all.

The bolded is what is worrisome

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.

Yes!!...This is one of the major and sick problems of Nigerians.

Why are all those Nigerian Senators and HOR getting paid all that very high salaries doing nothing but growing Big and Fat tummies...and the worst of it all is that you see all them sitting so relaxed and comfortable on the chairs in their chambers looking like Big Fat Pigs arguing back and forth on Baseless and Fruitless policies that go nowhere. Nonsense!!

Slimpotter:
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.

...and pray, pray, pray!

DexterousOne:
Do you understand the implications of this mass exodus of SKILLED Nigerians to all over the globe?

Remember Nigeria does not even have enough SKILLED AND USEFUL people in the first place
Most of the population are dead wood firewood


The ones that could help the country somewhat are the ones fleeing in droves

That should scare anyone who is aware

The Nigerian Politicians...and most especially the ones in government Do Not Care!!

Why would they care? When most of them and their family members receives all those skilled and useful services like Education, Healthcare outside Nigeria.

DexterousOne:
You have talk am finish

you are Welcome bro, can you imagine his useless reasoning

Another very good thing about this movement of people to Canada is that they are leaving very good jibs behind and these jobs need to be filled by people, this is a good opportunity to start earning big.

Mizwisdom:
Another very good thing about this movement of people to Canada is that they are leaving very good jibs behind and these jobs need to be filled by people, this is a good opportunity to start earning big.

You see that is the problem

When so many skilled people leave

Incompetent hands replace them

DexterousOne:
You see that is the problem

When so many skilled people leave

Incompetent hands replace them

Please don't repeat this, what makes us incompetent? because we schooled here? that's very wrong. We are competent enough but many don't have the opportunity to prove themselves because the positions have already been taken but now that people are leaving, we will be in a better position to fill in and prove ourselves. It's a great opportunity for some of us to show what we've got within

Aphroditee:
Nigeria is only enjoyable for those that have money . We would all leave if we could

Even those with money are concerned about security issues

Mizwisdom:
Please don't repeat this, what makes us incompetent? because we schooled here? that's very wrong. We are competent enough but many don't have the opportunity to prove themselves because the positions have already been taken but now that people are leaving, we will be in a better position to fill in and prove ourselves. It's a great opportunity for some of us to show what we've got within

buhahahaha!!….Keep up with the wishful thinking. We all know it's the Only way to keep you sane with the current and ongoing insane situations in Nigeria.

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 .

No one cares. The less the merrier.

I have a friend who was a senior manager and left for US. He is currently fliping burgers. Imagine. He keeps consoling himself that the strugle will soon be over. No one send am go there oh. Na him carry him hand go reset him life all over again.

I am enjoying Buharis government.
You dont like it .. follow suit and Jaapaa. No one will care.

People migrate in search of better opportunities aka greener pastures. It's been around since time immemorial. You cant blame other countries for poaching the best talents in another country, blame the host country for not provide its citizens with opportunities to live a comfortable life.

12inchess:
India is number one ITA country
China is number two ITA country
Nigeria is number 3 ITA country
Pakistan is number 4
United Kingdom citizens are number 5
United States is number 6.

One would wonder why americans and British citizens are doing express entry. But such is life.

Leaving the E.U will make things horrible there. Plus you can't compare Europe to north America. Also I think they go by country of application not citizenship?

DexterousOne:
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

As you are leaving Indians and Chinese are moving in. If you dont know how to harness the goldmine in your country foreigners will do it for you. Just be decieving yourself

Beautyaddy:
buhahahaha!!….Keep up with the wishful thinking. We all know it's the Only way to keep you sane with the current and ongoing insane situations in Nigeria.

You dey mind that one?

Please help me comprehend what the Nigerian people are complaining about. Hard statistical evidence does not show that we have had enough of our useless leaders. In fact, the evidence shows that we are extremely happy with the leadership we have.
As recently as May of this year, the ruling political parties had a landslide victory at the presidential polls. Out of 28.6 million votes cast, APC and PDP combined recorded 26.5 million votes, a whopping 93% of the ballot. PDP had been voted out as recently as 4 years ago by a dissatisfied electorate while the populace had generally whined and declared the ruling APC government a disaster in a run up to the recent elections.
Are you telling me that only 2.1 million people (or 7%) of the voting populace had the good sense to vote for anyone but APC or PDP? By extrapolation, we can assume that a good number of our youths who are of voting age and are now grumbling all voted for APC and PDP. When we all start voting with our sense intact, the World will take us serious and we will maybe see some real change.