Oh such stories are abundant. The amount of brain drain (particularly young doctors) fleeing Nigeria for Australia, the UK and Canada and Dubai and basically, anywhere but here? It is terrifying. Worst of all, you can't blame them. If you check the stats, our people are achieving incredible things in the diaspora because they're in an environment where their talents match the infrastructure. That surgeon that extracted a fetus, took out the tumor and put the fetus back in the mom to be carried to term? Nigerian. Chief designer of the Chevy Volt? Nigerian. Smartest Family in the UK? Nigerians. Drone/robotics whiz in Texas with like 6 zillion PhDs? Nigerian. The list goes on.
If our country has nothing to offer its best people, then those best will either do their jobs at 1/100th potential, flee or be pushing wheelbarrows in the market.
And that's where we are.
My impression is that Nigerians take education very seriously, and that is a very good thing. Brain drain is very bad for a country though, no doubt about it, but looking around I would still see this as an important thing.
The Arab countries could actually learn a lot from you in that regard - but somehow the trend in parts of sunni Islam is to turn your back to knowledge and education.