Nigeria is losing her experienced and specialist doctors to other countries in Europe, America and Asia because of two major reasons, which are economic and better infrastructure in these more advanced countries. The doctors are moving to societies where they are better paid because staying back in Nigeria keeps them on the poverty belt. A country that devalues its currency like Nigeria has done in relation to other major currencies like the Euro, dollar and pound is definitely going to have a huge crisis within its society.
Nigeria started the devaluation policy from the Babangida military government and since he has remained a god to the ruling elite, none of them has had the wisdom to look at what is wrong structurally and economically with Nigeria. The way salary structures have been fixed in the public and private sectors is not encouraging to entice medical personnel with experience and special skills to remain within Nigeria as everything is a cash-and-carry system.
There are no mortgage systems for owning homes and credit systems are non-existent for car owners where down payment can be made for easy car loans. Government schools have been abandoned or are not well-funded and only highbrow privately owned schools are well-funded and well-equipped.
This also comes at a high cost as school fees are not regulated and are left to market forces leading to very high and unaffordable fees for the majority. This has also affected housing as this is left to market forces. Read more
