The increasing wave of emigration of Nigerians to other parts of the world provoked more public attention penultimate Thursday with the official revelation that issued a total of 1,899,683 passports in 2022, the highest in a single year, and in the last seven years. The reason for the demand for passports is not difficult to fathom.
Nonetheless, cynics, especially medical practitioners, say the worst is yet to come. In a plaintive account of his case, Dr Kunle Ibisola, an erstwhile junior doctor at University College Ibadan , now working with Scotland National Health Service, told the BBC recently that he never planned to leave the country but existential realities constituted the final push factors. He said,"The main reason I left is salary, and the cost of living.
Her concerns about the lot of country folks, perhaps, speak to the present challenge of nationwide fuel scarcity. President Muhammadu Buhari, who doubles as the minister of Petroleum Resources, will have a lot of explanations to make after leaving office in May, regarding why for eight years Nigeria could not refine petroleum products but relied solely on importation. The process of importing fuel has been mired in subsidy controversies and imponderable corruption for so long.