Migration has become such a raging issue in today`s world. It explains why people from countries torn apart by poverty and conflicts take impossible risks to move to other countries where they live under backbreaking conditions just to improve their lives and possibly support those they left behind at home.
Drain brain is a huge problem in Nigeria. This problem is exacerbated by the sheer number of people wo want to make the jump abroad. Nigeria continues to lose their best human resources to other countries who do what is needed to attract and keep them. Education tourism and medical tourism continue to deplete Nigeria`s foreign reserves as the country continues to grapple with a disgruntled and a dispirited citizenry.
However, in a cynical twist of events, a group of Nigerian students under the aegis of the Nigerian Community in Northern Cyprus has rebuffed the warning and insisted that Nigerian students are safer in Northern Cyprus than in Northern Nigeria. Dismissing the warning, the group which held a mini demonstration during which members held up several banners insisted that its members in Northern Cyprus remain safe and free from abduction, harassment, terrorism and killing of any form.