[Alata]

Omo ti ko ba keto nile, a ko lode: the child that refuses to learn its lessons at home, will be taught abroad.
For too long, the better-off in Nigeria/AFrica have sought mostly to be parasites on the efforts of other people. Self love + Self-help = Self-improvement. Until the various people of Africa learn to love themselves and seek to improve their competitiveness in the world, so long shall their lot be beneath the contempt of others.
Abati should inform his beggardly friend to invest his sweat, time and equity in a privately funded project. All over the world, the well-off invest in education, health, housing, and other social improvements. The state then tries to help the less well off. In Nigeria, the well off invest all energies in aiming to cream the state at home and abroad. Long may foreign countries refuse visas for spurious claims. At least it may prevent charlatan institutions (not the University of Edinburgh) from preying on impressionable foreigners!

Some things to concentrate the mind.
If a town/village knows that its indigene refused to invest wealth or effort in improving the village during his/her lifetime, the village should refuse the indigene's burial within village grounds. Likewise, government officials who die abroad on 'medical checkup' should be buried abroad.