The Desk — Finance, Policy & the View from the Street By Kemi Adeosun
What Nigeria’s middle class in psychological transit is costing the economy — and why the bill never appears in the migration statistics
I am currently recruiting, which means I am spending hours interviewing talented Nigerians in their thirties and early forties. They are ambitious, well educated, experienced — exactly the sort of people any economy should want to keep. Yet one common feature worries me.
Too many are in transit. Not physically. Mentally.
Almost every conversation contains some variation of the same sentence: “we might be relocating.” They speak about Nigeria almost as though they are already visitors — polite, engaged, and quietly elsewhere.
