Hello, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Today, the scam college and the scam jobs being promised to unsuspecting Nigerians.

I left my innocent kids thinking that I'll get a better job there,

but I can't even have enough money to pay for my bills, not to talk of sending money home.

Yes, in this program, we're looking at the lure of a better college education and the price

that some are paying to get one.

You have bogus institutions in Asia, you have bogus institutions in the United States, and

our students who are desperate for good education actually get trapped.

Some of them actually end up paying huge amounts of money.

That's all to come in Business Daily from the BBC.

In yesterday's edition of this program, you may remember we looked at the economic problems facing Nigeria ahead of its elections this weekend.

Among those challenges are spiraling unemployment rate and growing poverty, well articulated by

citizens like this lady on the streets of Abuja.

No money to pay school fees, no money to eat.

So they say change, change will go better, change in our worst. Poverty is too much. So

men in Nigeria know what they can do. I can't pay house rent. I can pay short rent. I can pay

school fees for my children. I'm doing nothing. Job rest. Tough times. You might argue the problem

could be improved with more access to advanced education there.

But in fact, in Nigeria, graduates are themselves a significant number of the 23% officially unemployed.

Part of the problem is the poor quality of further education in the country,

according at least to Evans Ocano.

He's the founder of Cregital.com, a fast-growing digital

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