 The human capital flight phenomenon in Nigeria and the growing emergency. The minutes of human capital flight in Nigeria is gradually nearing epidemic proportion. Every other day, young Nigerians, both gainfully employed and underemployed, are living the country in droves in search of greener pastures. The proverbial girls have become so withered on this part of the globe that its young talents have all become disillusioned. Jaipa Eurubaward, which represents running or living away, is a phenomenon of choice today and the singular ideology that unites Nigerians, large, yet growing young population. One is being seen as the best bet to get visas easily abroad, with various countries offering scholarships for master's and undergraduate programs, some of which come with an option for permanent residency. While the health sector has historically been the most hit by this phenomenon, it has now taken a deep root among other professionals, lawyers, bankers, engineers, software developers, etc. In the last two weeks, at least three of my friends jetted out of the country after becoming so frustrated with life and career here. Just yesterday, a colleague of mine quit his job as a leading law practice and is set to travel to Canada in a matter of days. An economy associated by astronomical unemployment indices, rising poverty, inequality, insecurity, poor capital income amongst other socioeconomic challenges has conduced to a debilitating brain drain, with potentially unhealthy consequences for the socioeconomic development of Nigeria. But who cares about this when faced with a decision that bothers on survivors? That is the question. Why female capital flight in Nigeria invariably leads to high foreign remittances back home? The negative consequences for the country far outstrips the perceived benefits. The human capital of any economy in today's knowledge-based global economy is its greatest resource. Therefore, no amount of foreign remittances can compensate for the shared investments in the human capital of other already advanced economies, such as the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and several parts of Europe. The above state of affairs paints the picture of a country in a human capital crisis. Unfortunately, comments credited to a senior minister of the current administration to the effect that her pool of medical professionals can leave the country if they so desire does not betray the mindset of a government conscious of this social anomaly. Yes, to stem the tide of the growing wave of human capital flights in Nigeria, the government will show considerable commitment and investment in the education and health sectors of the economy. Now, we're having this discussion at a time when the investment system has been shut down for over six months, going to the industrial action by academics in the sector certainly lives must to be desired. Not long ago, Nigeria used to be a net attractor of foreign professionals in her workforce, including students with the associated economic benefits for the country. If the contrary is the case today, we must pause to ask ourselves what happened. An objective answer to that question might well hold the keys to reversing the ugly trend of human capital flights in the country. How famous for the word jackpot, I don't know what you want us to stay or you want us to go because we all want to go. Some of us are here for different reasons and the jackpot thing. People used to frown at it, criticize people that travel, but now those of us that are staying back are beginning to look like we are not thinking because it is predictable out there. You're a truck driver, but you can tell, you can predict safely what you will end and how you will live with your income and your manner of labor. Here to a large extent, it doesn't even matter what you do, where you're from, you're exposed to all the risk that is associated with living here. I know you talked about the health sector and also the education sector, but there's also insecurity. If you check this jackpot trend, it's very common or linked or associated with those people who are in the middle class, which is the working class, which is the potential leaders of tomorrow and almost bourgeois, maybe almost bourgeois. Why are they going? These people are educated, they are working so hard, they are paying taxes, meaning they have rights to certain things in the economy. They have rights to power, rights to security, rights to everything, and they're not getting any of them. They are working and paying taxes. That's why you're having a lot of these exploits, people are living. In those days to Jack Bar, you had to go and do prostitution in Europe, you had to go and do many jobs all over the world, and then people were living because they had to work very hard to be rich here, so you had to go do drugs or prostitution. Today, you just need to be very educated and you move. I will tell you something because a lot of my friends have moved. People are not moving because of themselves anymore. People are living because of their children. People are saying things like, wow, we've done eight years of this guy, eight years of this guy. What if a worse person then takes over again? That's not so they are going for their children. Exactly. So it's actually a big problem and it brings me back to what Elijah said at the beginning. The government has to go back. It's not a matter of making things difficult for us to live. You have to go back and solve the problem. It's not something you can fire, what you put on fire, don't smoke. It's not smoke. It's actually very, very deep. I consider that mine every day because I wonder what I'm doing here. So it's not about me, it's for my children. So I mean, people can say, well, I mean people have their own opinions, but that's my own opinion. Please, please go ahead. I think, Mr. Rimo, listening to what you have just said, let me focus on a little bit of emotional. The reason why I said this is because I think Africa, where the wind is in the world that we love our country, we have tried, like, our time, achieved some of a lot of travel tribulations that have affected us in Africa. Like, I'm from Sierra Leone, like, yeah, people will not live in Sierra Leone for anything. And then even though we are 10 years of the Wall Street or whatever, and then I know my grandmother returned back to Sierra Leone because she loves the country so much, from America. And then now you're saying this, there's a friend in Nigeria, a boy I studied with in India. It was like seven years ago. I was a certified ethical worker. It's wonderful. I read that several weeks ago, before coming to Nigeria, I told her I'll be coming to Nigeria. She sent me a picture of a Canadian visa, so I'm leaving for Canada. And so why are you going? It's in Nigeria. Everything is finished. So there's nothing I can do. And what our leaders don't understand is our natural resources is not the oil, not the gold, not the dam. It's human capital. So we look at a country like South Africa. You'll never find South Africa that want to leave because they have an industrialized economy. And secondly, they have government that cares about them. All we ask so in West Africa in general, this Sierra Leone Ghana, Cameroon and all of us, just show consent. Exactly. Provide, know that one day I'm going to get sick. You have the resources. You have all the money. You can get anywhere on the go. But make sure that when I get sick, there's a medical facility available. Make sure there's fire in my house. Yes, and ambulance are going to come and quench that fire. Very big. We just need that. Leave us with the rest. Leave us with the rest. And then if you can leave us with the rest, and then I feel like we will stay. Yeah. Okay. So my concern in all of this Jack by issue is actually the fact that our grandparents were Nigerians. Our parents are Nigerians. We are Nigerians. Our children are going to be mixed. Yes. Because again, and our children's children are going to probably be Americans and Canadians like fully, you know. So there's a gradual fade out of culture. And it's, there's a gradual fade out of tradition, you know, of our values. And somebody, a friend of mine told me that very close to a child's school in Canada, there's a cannabis store. Yes. So you can actually, cannabis is actually like, there's nothing bad about it. I know most of us in Nigeria will say, oh, cannabis. Oh, go forbid. Okay. Yes. Okay. Go forbid. My children must not even cite it. But then in Canada, there's a school, there's a store. So you can actually, as a parent, I could go pick my kid and just grab some, you know, grab some. Yeah. So those are the things that give us concern about JAPA. Like my friend was telling me, oh, now, and a daughter was actually asking her, mommy, my teacher said, I'm a girl, like telling me I'm a girl. So I, and I told her come tell her she's a girl. She can never be a boy. Because now in the UK, in the US, yes, you can actually decide to wake up tomorrow. I said, mommy, I want to be a man. You know, like what's happening to Jeff Bezos' son? He even gave himself a female name. He said his name is Alicia, right? What they call himself. I can't remember the name. So he came to his father and said, daddy, you are the owner of Twitter, right? Fine. I want to be a boy. So, you know, those are the concerns about JAPA. But what are your opinions? Let's instill the right values in our children now. Well, the issue of gender, it's a very, very dicey situation. We don't want to go in that. But anyway, the point taken is we have to sit up as governments. We really have to sit up as government because people are living in the country. We can't affect to have brain drain on the economy. Just imagine the adverse effect it has in Nigeria. So it is a very, very serious problem. We need to consider it seriously. So I quite agree. And I'm particularly captivated by the thought of... Sorry, I don't get the name now. That has the borders on the cultural implications of potential generation. We have all been fixated by the economic consequences. But that is also an aspect of it that we may not quantify in terms of the consequences. Yeah. So hopefully, as Mr. Elijah said, it must take a turnaround in the situation here for this drift to be reversed. Until that is seen, I don't see that movement stopping anytime soon. The next is next after this timeout.