Nigerian factor. Yet your COREN lacked the brainpower to come together to form an angel investment or venture capital vehicle to foster innovation. So weak that serious companies would rather spend fortunes bringing in engineers from India and Pakistan. You lot should never brag. Just hide your faces in shame
Sir, I have an issue with your last statements.
The reason many engineering and science graduates pivot into finance and banking is largely the “Nigeria factor.” 🇳🇬
Give these graduates a country with a thriving manufacturing sector, functional research institutions, R&D opportunities, and industries investing in engineering innovation, and watch how many would actually abandon their fields.
Engineering and the physical sciences require a FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM to thrive! This often, is not the fault of the graduates.
You cannot expect graduates to remain in fields where there are barely any opportunities to practise what they spent years studying.
Having lived in Germany 🇩🇪, the Netherlands 🇳🇱, and now the US 🇺🇸, I’ve seen firsthand what happens when a country invests in science, engineering, research, and industrial development.
The problem is not that Nigerian science graduates suddenly fell in love with banking. Many simply went where the opportunities and money are!
Give Nigerian engineers an ecosystem where they can thrive, and watch them build incredible things!