The Tinubu Media Volunteers (TMV) has praised the sharp rise in Nigeria’s nursing student enrollment, which has expanded from 28,000 two years ago to an impressive 115,000 today.
TMV attributed this growth to President Bola Tinubu’s administration, which has focused on enhancing the country’s healthcare sector by significantly increasing the number of trained medical personnel, including doctors and nurses.
Mr. Chukwudi Enekwechi, Chairman of TMV, highlighted in a statement on Saturday that this surge in enrollment supports the government’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medical Sciences (STEM) initiative, positioning Nigeria as a global source of skilled medical professionals.
“We believe that this is a welcome development bearing in mind that nurses’ skills would serve a useful purpose for Nigeria. First, it will enable Nigerian nurses to travel to the various countries where their services will be needed.
“Definitely, this would attract more diaspora remittances to Nigeria, as well as open up job opportunities for Nigerian nurses within and outside the country.
“Furthermore, the nurses’ enrollment comes with the acquisition of necessary skills that are in high demand abroad,” said the group.
According to TMV, with the huge enrollment of nurses, Nigeria can emulate India which remitted about 129 billion dollars as diaspora remittances in 2024 alone, and human capital and medical personnel account for a substantial part of the remittances.
The group is hopeful that this new development would position Nigeria to begin to outsource human capital to the world including Europe and America.
