The UK revealed that a disproportionate 120,000 dependents accompanied 100,000 workers to the country in 2023.
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Mr Olawale said many marriages will be ruined, saying “many sold their belongings to relocate to the UK either as students or skilled workers.”“How can you say you want people to leave their countries to come to care for your families but you want the same people to leave their own families back in their home countries?
This is as the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate revealed on Sunday that about 16,000 doctors in Nigeria left the country in the last five years and about 17,000 have been transferred. “We did an assessment and discovered that we have 85,000 to 90,000 registered Nigerian doctors. Not all of them are in the country,” he said.
He added that there is clear evidence that care workers have been offered visas under false pretences, travelling thousands of miles for jobs that simply don’t exist.
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