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In the U.S. Nigerians are the most educated immigrant ethnic group with a ratio of 75% of them holding degrees, an improvement from the last two years statistics which saw them at 60%.

On the other hand, the American national recently increased to 32% as against the previous state of 30%. In May 2016, at Howard University in Washington D.C, U.S.A, out of 96 graduating doctors of pharmacy, 43 of them were Nigerians, and 16 of the 27 awards given to the graduating students were awarded to Nigerians. Hmm, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Nigerian American workers remained the highest earners, raking in an estimated 25% above the $53,000 median income ratio, hold on, I'll explain later.

Meanwhile, in recent times, Nigerian scholars abroad are leading the world. Check out the likes of 24-year-old Ufot Ekong who solved a thirty-year-old Japanese Tokai University mathematical puzzle, and broke a fifty-year-old academic record as the Best All-Rounder holding a first-class degree in electrical engineering, in 2015.

Did you know that he (Ufot) was the first to develop an Electric car? In Russia, Dr. Victor Olalusi graduated as the best graduating student of the Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU), Moscow, in 2013. He was equally the best graduating scholar throughout the Russian federation.

In 2014, 22-year-old Osarieme Omonuwa stunned the University of Reading, United Kingdom by winning six prizes among which was the record-breaking feat of becoming the first black woman to win the Reading University Chancellor's Award since 121 years.

In 2014, a 24-year-old Nigerian scholar Tobi Olasunkanmi was awarded the William Charnley Prize as he held the top First Class Honours in Hughes Hall, Law Tripos, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Hmm, could it be Trump is afraid Nigerian Scholars might conquer America, just the same way they conquered Europe and Asia? (Sources: (1) Ventures in Africa. (2) Hughes Hall, Cambridge (3))

Have you heard of the Imafidon family? They are products of Nigerian born U.K. immigrants who have been named the smartest family in the U.K. just ask google, I don't have much time to explain. Also, did you know that it was Nigeria’s Jelani Aliyu who designed the famous Chevrolet Volt? I'm sure you must have heard about how Philip Emeagwali (Nigerian), in 2015, received the patency for designing the world's fastest computer? (Source: face2face Africa)

Forget the most recent rating as the 43rd strongest military in the world and 5th in Africa, did you know that the Nigerian Army was once ranked as the world's fiercest and strongest army for ground battle and face-to-combat? Did you also know that in 1967, some Biafran (Nigerian) soldiers designed a weapon of mass destruction named ‘Ogbunigwe' (a rocket-propelled warhead) weighing from 5-500kg, with an impact reach of 8000 meters?

This was achieved with little or nothing. In 2004, President Olusegun Obasanjo led the Nigerian Army to test their homemade weapons; the prototype medium-range weapons (the 60mm mortar, 81mm mortar, and the RPG-7). In 2017, The Nigerian Army unveiled a set of homemade combat equipment; (the Infantry Patrol Vehicle (IPV), a Combat Fighting Motorcycle (CFM) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and an Automated Sniper Rifle (ASR).

Did you know that late Mohammed Bah Abba invented the world's the first non-electric refrigerator? Did you also know that most of the Bomb detectors used by the U.S. homeland security service, C.I.A, and others, were built by a Nigerian known as Omawunmi Sadik? In 2019, a 25-year-old Nigerian, Jerry Mallo built a Nigerian made fiber sports car. A Nigerian scientist, Seyi Oyesola, invented a solar-powered life-saving operating room called (Hospital-In-A-Box).

Ndubuisi Enekwe is an American based Nigeria Scientist who invented microchips that powered robotic surgeons. Col. Oviemo Ovadje invented an emergency auto-transfusion system, an effective low-cost blood transfusion system that he built for developing countries of the world.

Sabastine Chinonye Omeh generated electricity from wind propelled turbines, and he's a Nigerian. Read about the inventions of Umeh Ifeanyi Charles (Nigerian inventor credited with five U.S. patents), Yemi Adesokan (Nigerian inventor who developed a mechanism for drug resistance), Aloysius Anaebonam (Nigerian inventor credited with 12 U.S. patents). Nigerian born Bruno Gilbert also created a counter-collision gadget, a device that prevents accidents on the road, air, rail, and sea. (Credits: (1) flourishafrica.com (2) nationalgeographic.com (3) militaryfactory.com (4) NLIPwatch)

The list is endless. Please kindly add yours in the comment section.

Donald Trump says Nigerians are Criminals and Terrorists. If I may ask, my dear reader, are you also a criminal? If you're not, who then are the so-called criminals, because out of over 180,000,000 Nigerians world over, only an estimated sum of 250,000 of 180,000,000 have traceable criminal records (this is just 0.14% out of the entire Nigerian population in the last three decades).

Is this now enough to earn us the ‘black-list'? Are we worse than Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Jamaica, North Korea, India, and even the U.S.? Nigerians are known hustlers (traders, inventors, risk-takers, brave hearts) does that make us bad people?

The truth remains that, Trump is afraid of Nigerians and what Nigeria can become if not checked. Yes. He has analyzed the future and is Afraid that with all the potentials in both human and natural resources, that Nigerians would someday find their bearing and perhaps dethrone the U.S.

Trump doesn't want Nigerians to get further exposure to evolving trends and just might pressure other U.S. allied countries to follow his steps in blacklisting Nigeria.

The whole world envies Nigeria. See what our sons and daughters are doing in the entertainment industries, sports, and business. Boko Haram as a terrorist group does not define Nigeria.

What defines us is our uniqueness, living together despite our ethnic diversity. The elite media can only show documentaries of how Nigerians topped the list of busted scammers in the world and how Nigerians are top-ranking drug peddlers in the world, but they would not tell you that Nigerians are the most educated Black country in the world and among the first 5 in the world.

They won't also tell you that A Nigerian is the current world boxing Champion (Anthony Joshua). They would never mention the records of the Europe based Nigerian footballers (past and present). How can they speak good of Nigerians? Can anything good come from a jealous heart?

To our brothers at home and in the diaspora. Maybe it's time to build our dear country. If they refuse your Visa, don't worry, they would look for you when they see what you've become. Do not be discouraged by the level of corruption in the system. Remember China and how she suffered the worse fate in the hands of her ed oppressors? Can you see China today? If China could do it, yes, we can do it!