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Frustrated Nigerians ‘flee’ abroad in punishing pre-election brain drain

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Lagos, Nigeria Reuters Nnamdi Nwaogu, a 44-year-old IT worker, has packed his bags. In Lagos, Nigeria’s frenetic commercial capital, galloping inflation and a plunging naira have pummeled his salary. Nwaogu, like hundreds of other Nigerians, left amid a brain drain that is punishing even for a nation used to losing its young and educated.  “We […]