Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

Migration is the movement from ones home to other intended or unintended vicinities for want of safety and survival. It has rendered communities, towns, villages and cities devastated and their inhabitants dispersed and made homeless, abject and their lives threatened. Migration is essentially motivated by the quest for security, greener pasture, new land for peaceful settlement and fertile for farming. It is a human tendency that is provoked by hostile circumstances beyond the control of the human person and this movement has been very rampant in the world today. It also involves movement of highly skilled manpower from our country Nigeria to developed cities, developed societies which implies brain drain. Brain drain as one of the major effects of migration has become an embarrassment to the nation and the bitter truth about the brain drain syndrome is that most of the engineers, academics, scientists, physicians and others that were trained in developing countries institutions of higher learning with substantial amount of money turn out to better the socio economic fortune of those already industrialized countries. The Nigerian Government should address and review all the various policies that have triggered the migration stream of intellectuals from universities and other professionals like Doctors ,Pharmacists, Nurses, Engineers etc from the country. Secondly, the Nigerian Government should provide a conflict- free political environment for the immigrants to return in order to contribute to the economic development of the country. Critical analysis and expository methods will be adopted as research methodology in the work.

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