Student’s trade and industry woes in a foreign country, following "closed"

A sharp drop in oil revenues - Nigeria's main source of foreign exchange - coupled with the new government's tight fiscal policy, there is a threat to the welfare of Nigerians studying abroad. A lot of students were reportedly closed by the British government for the repatriation of 29,000 Nigerians have concerns might be.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics, including the top destination country United Kingdom 17,300 52,000 Nigerian students abroad, there are some estimates that. The Institute of International Education in New York in the United States has trained nearly 8,000 Nigerians.

Ghana and other African countries such as South Africa, as they appear at the bottom of the number of Nigerian students abroad could be considerably higher.

Nigeria's government, well-educated young people with the development strategy encourages students to study abroad and the money facilitated their easy and legal access to foreign countries, even though the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Foreign universities in Lagos, the capital, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Ibadan last oil boom years are used in exhibitions. Human resources experts have been sent to foreign universities to encourage students to celebrate the Nigerian.

The upper and middle classes, to name just a few of the parents, in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia and South Africa were able to get passed on to their children in universities.

crisis and its causes

End Nigeria's Bonny Light crude oil during the oil boom of more than US $ 100 a barrel sold. The United States, but now their own shale gas has resulted in a sharp decline in oil and gas production has begun.

Nigeria thus robbed of some of its most lucrative customers in the United States, in countries such as India and China has become an exporter of oil and gas. This is approximately US $ 50 Nigerian crude oil prices led to a plummeting.

Nigeria's foreign reserves during the last general elections, the political elite were faced with rampant attack. Financial corruption, money laundering and external resources in an attempt to arrest the hemorrhage, the newly elected president, Muhammad Bukhara prevented the use of exchange.

He thus placing their foreign currency accounts to prevent companies and individuals, partially freeze the accounts of the Central Bank in foreign currency domiciliary all orders. Naira denomination credit cards issued by commercial banks have been de-activated.

The impact of austerity measures

Nigeria glut of oil has a negative impact on social services. Strictly by the rules of the currency abroad, or to help students and parents to the authorities almost impossible.

Nigeria, for the first time in recent history, several thousand citizens studying in various universities in the world, "closed" are. They sent a distress call to help the Nigerian government.

Matters more complicated, many host countries are already foreign students to help fund their education and living expenses to part-time work lets out. As a result of the higher unemployment rates among university graduates in many countries, as its economic challenges facing it.

Reactions

Students Niger Delta amnesty program instituted by the federal government are beneficiaries. It was in the interests of a peaceful environment for oil production.

Leadership Initiative for Peace and Cultural Development of the students for many months and have not received payment for Wilson Pastor Reuben Bukharin called to help them. This has resulted in students from the authorities, Amnesty Office instruction.

In addition, the Rivers State Governor Unisom Wake to sit for the final exams in the final year students abroad to settle debts amounted to US $ 3.6 million payment. However, other students' fate remains unresolved.

President of the Association of Russian Federal Government doctors "Russia and other countries, namely Morocco, Algeria, Cuba, Serbia, Turkey, Nigeria, China and Romania in the scholarship students, all closed," it explained.

She retirement pensions, for the last six months, "the budget that is still to be signed," he said, which is paid as an excuse.

Abide Dabiri-Erewa, chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora representative, a resident of the papers do not require the UK Government has announced plans to repatriate about 29,000 Nigerians.

According to reliable sources, will be closed between Nigerian students may have.