The Registrar of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria, Dr Tosan Erhabor, said that so far a total of 10,697 medical laboratory scientists had left the country. Erhabor, speaking on Sunday, however, noted that a policy is being put together by the Federal Ministry of Health to ...

Nike Popoola Operators in the banking industry are mobilising $20m to replace specialised workers whose exit abroad in search of greener pastures has worsened service levels in banks. Also, rising network glitches and weaker digital channels have exposed banks to increasing activities of ...

An immigration lawyer based in the United Kingdom, Femi Aina, has advised Nigerians seeking to relocate abroad for greener pastures not to sell all they have to process their travelling. Aina, who gave the advice in an exclusive interview with our correspondent at the weekend, said many ...

The House of Representatives Committee on Health has revealed that not less than five wards with about 150 beds, have been closed down at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba due to a shortage of health workers. The chairman of the committee, Dr. Amos Magaji explained that the five ...

Many people are experiencing homelessness as housing prices and rents have increased in Canada’s real estate markets. Reports said tens of thousands have started living on the streets of Canada, which remains a top destination for immigrants and refugees. According to a new study in ...

The House of Representatives, on Thursday, unanimously voted against a motion seeking to make the Federal Government address the issues causing Nigerian professionals to migrate to other countries en masse, in search of greener pastures. A new member of the House, Philip Agbese, had moved a ...

By Miftaudeen Raji A member of the United Kingdom parliament, Carol Monaghan, has condemned the UK’s new immigration policy, which banned international students from bring family members with them from 2024. Recall that UK Home Office, on Tuesday, also announced that foreign students would ...

By  Deborah Tolu-Kolawole In search of better education and quality of life, a total of 128,770 Nigerian students enrolled in universities in the United Kingdom between 2015 to the end of 2022, analysis of the data obtained from the Higher Education Statistics Agency of the UK has revealed. ...

By Efosa Taiwo ‘Japa’, a lingo in Nigeria for deliberate exit from the country especially for greener pastures abroad, has been a constant happening over the last few years with students, professionals and partners forming the chunk of those fleeing its shores. As enticing as the idea of being ...

Japa has now become the current trend among Nigerian youth, professional, and even the unskilled. It has been as a result of the failure of Nigeria's system as a whole, people no longer see the possibility of making it in Nigeria again. Thus, they believe there is no more opportunities for the ...

By  Peter Dada The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria on Wednesday lamented the rate at which the country is losing its professional nurses and midwives to foreign countries. The council disclosed that over 14,000 nurses had left Nigeria for “greener pastures” in many countries across ...

By  Deborah Dan-Awoh The spate of migration among bankers in the country is giving stakeholders reasons to worry. DEBORAH DAN-AWOH writes on how japa has worsened the skilled manpower gap in the banking industry A former teller at Sterling Bank, Gift Akpan, left the shores of Nigeria for the ...

By  Sharon Osaji A Nigerian, Kenneth Osadolor,  who has lived in Canada for 10 years, shares insights about living abroad in this interview with SHARON OSAJI What can you say about the ban on foreigners from buying properties in Canada? First of all, you will look at how things have turned ...

By  Sharon Osaji Almost every Nigerian knows one or two people who have left the country in the last five years in search of greener pastures in a new wave of emigration known as ‘japa’. What does ‘japa’ actually mean? Japa is a Yoruba word which means ‘to run away’ or ‘to leave somewhere or ...