 A public lecture in Asaba has advocated the address of internal challenges facing power supply, quality health care, effective transportation system, and all the utilities that improve business competitiveness, as this is key to cabin the brain drain in the country. The annual lecture, themed Flight of Talent, Navigating Nigeria's Brain Drain Predicament, was held at the Unity Hall Government House, Asaba. Our correspondent at Pomergera Friday reports that the resource persons from different sectors of the economy said that one of the consequences of the brain drain in the country is the depletion of human capital, which is essential to the nation's development. In summary, the consequences are it's depleting the human manpower. So we need to really go through the root of it and see what we can do to curb it. Really, a lot of our skilled manpower, they are really playing and the way at which they are moving to other countries is really alarming. And it's worrisome because it's affecting our own economy. So we need to look at what can we do to ensure that even when they go out, they will come back and also contribute to the growth of the nation's development. So it's about leadership. It's about leadership. We've had good leadership that meant to us. The leadership will be struggling every day to ensure that our currency, our manpower, remains valuable, remains in the committee of currencies. Once there's power, you can see people do some minor industries can come up, people can end livings from there and then this issue of running away will reduce, if you reduce, and then if the environment is okay again, their job people will be working. Nobody wants to live abroad, I must tell you that. When we visit you, find it you want to run back to your country. The sign here is that our best brains are living the shores of the country and it's affecting productivity. And if your house is comfortable for you, you don't really go out and live in the house. You go and come back. So it is a situation where values are not appreciated and you cannot cage a value. So people are going out to where the values can be appreciated. So the government, especially the government, these are the people who have the opportunity, the privileges, the money, the resources to put this in place. So they should develop structures that can make people learn here in Nigeria, stay here in Nigeria and their learning or their years in education or whatever talent they have is appreciated and will grow our economy.