Nigeria as a nation since her independence from Britain in 1960 is known worldwide for the oil export and its population that makes it the largest black nation in the world or the giant of Africa. About 1 out of every 5 living Africans is a Nigerian and Nigerians are globe trotting addicts with permanent residencies in all the 195 independent nations of the world of today. The vibrant national economy of Nigeria began to collapse in the 1970s shortly after the Biafran civil war and in the midst of her oil boom economy due to the reign of the chronic official corruption and the massive mismanagement of that oil wealth by the then military rulers.
This new economic development in Nigeria by the 1980s had started to directly affect the tens of millions of the ordinary Nigerians as unemployment rate began to grow, the value of the Nigerian Naira against the major international currencies began to fall, armed robbers and stealing became rampant, social services reduced, health care system collapsed, national infrastructures became overwhelmed, high inflation rate took over the prices of goods and services, poverty rate rose, standard of living and the purchasing power of millions of Nigerians fell and the entire nation was then plunged into social tensions, rampant workers' strikes and violent students' demonstrations.
These new economic indicators in Nigeria in the 1980s then gave birth to the era of brain drain that forced Nigeria's best brains and minds to seek for the greener pastures of Europe, North America and the Middle East. This era of economic uncertainties in Nigeria then forced the millions of those helpless, hopeless, vulnerable and ignorant Nigerians to turn to religions and crimes as their own way out of those economic problems.
Nigerians also began to see a new type of Christianity in the 1980s that was imported from America by the name of prosperity gospel that promises every faithful tither and regular offering giver enormous wealth and sound health in this life. Nigeria then became an international hotspot and transition for drug trafficking worldwide. Thousands of young Nigerian women began to move to the neighboring African nations and Europe as prostitutes. The desire to travel out of Nigeria to the western nations became the first-class dream of every young Nigerian to achieve. The era of the internet technology and mobile phone in the early 2000s gave birth to a new type of cyber crime in Nigeria that is known as the 419 in the legal circles. The biggest prosperity gospel Churches in Nigeria in the 1990s then began to export this new form of Christianity to the rest of the world where Nigerians live and work with the primary goal of getting financial reward in return as their primary motivation factor.
Today in 2013, Nigeria has successfully exported her crimes and criminals to the whole world with thousands of young Nigerians locked up in the prisons of the nations around the world for committing internet crimes, drug traffickings, prostitutions, visa frauds, security frauds, wire frauds, mail frauds and impersonations. The Nigerian Churches with their headquarters in Nigeria can also be found in the nations of the world today where Nigerians reside. These Nigerian Churches in the diaspora are serving as the direct conduits or the channels for the transferring of those hard currencies from those foreign nations to their parent Churches in Nigeria.
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