I have always maintained that once I finished my course of study that I would return to Nigeria to improve the lot of my country and so on.However as my graduation date draws nearer and nearer I have started experiencing cold feet and others I have talk to are experiencing the same. Here are the reasons why: I have been living abroad for the past 10 years and I had hoped in that time Nigeria would have gone some way in sorting itself out whether politically, security wise or just something to know that the country is moving forward. To date the only significant boon of Nigeria is the flourishing telecommunication industry.

Lets say I graduate and go back to Nigeria with my engineering qualification. What am I to expect are there significant employment possibilities? Or if I wanted to start my own enterprise, is there access to capital? With the amount of educated Nigerians plying their trade abroad I believe the Nigerian government should do more to clarify the uncertainties in the minds of people like myself who want to come back. I not saying the president himself should take time and go abroad ( God knows he does enough of that) and convince us, but little seminars could be organised in institutes of education by the Nigerian missions abroad to showcase the employment possibilities. A developing country like Nigeria cannot afford to be losing its educated individuals.