FG To Seek Ways To End Nigerians Migration Overseas
The Federal Government on Thursday announced that it was seeking ways to stop Nigerians from relocating abroad.
The government also noted that it would work towards ensuring Nigerians were gainfully employed to discourage the need to travel abroad.
The Minister of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, Henry Ikoh, made the statement in Abuja while receiving the Secretary-General of the Digital Cooperation Organisation, Ms Deemah Yahya, who paid him a courtesy visit in connection with the upcoming Digital Nigeria Day Conference.
He made it known that the government intended to correct the trend through industrialisation, which could be achieved by synergising with the DCO in the area of human capital development.
His word: “The synergy is what we require, capacity building is key and technology transfer is what Nigeria and Africa in particular needs at the moment so that the world can be a global village. We need to collaborate in all areas to ensure harmony.
”If we collaborate and synergise in the area of human capital development, it would guarantee industrialisation, when people are gainfully employed and moved out from poverty, then Africans and Nigerians would not be struggling to travel abroad because everything is here. We have all the raw materials; what we really require in terms of digitalisation is for us to cross fertilise ideas, train and retrain our people then things would be better.”
