Tag: Migration
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New report reveals 1 in 4 Nigerians wants to migrate
The National Bureau of Statistics(NBS), says one out of four individuals between ages 15 years and above would like to leave their communities permanently or at least temporarily.
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Explore investment migration for global opportunities, group tells Nigerians
A global investment group, Henley and Partners, (H&P) has advised Nigerians to explore investment migration for global opportunities. According to (H&P) global mobility and financial stability has become increasingly inter-related, Nigerians are being encouraged to consider investment migration as a pathway to securing foreign citizenship and reaping the benefits of visa-free travel. This call to…
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INTERVIEW: 75% of diaspora remittances are to cover food, medical, education costs – Migration Expert
The patterns of migration in Nigeria are diverse and multifaceted. From rural-rural migrations driven by communal conflicts and environmental challenges to rural-urban migrations spurred by the quest for better living conditions, urban-urban and inter-state migrations for better employment opportunities, we learn that the motivations driving migration are as varied as the destinations. Understanding these patterns…
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Japa: Six Nigerian stowaways rescued off Brazil, Canary Islands
Four stowaways were discovered and rescued by crew members off the southeast coast of Brazil, after spending a harrowing 13 days concealed in a compartment on top of the rudder of a Liberia-flagged ship that embarked from Lagos, Nigeria. The federal police confirming their safe retrieval said on Tuesday that the ship left Lagos on…
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“Japa”: FG moves to safeguard the rights of Nigerian migrant workers
The Nigerian Government has launched the revised National Policy on Labour Migration (NPLM) 2020, in a bid to improve migration governance and management in a way that protects Nigerians against exploitation as migrant workers. As a source, transit and destination country, managing migration has remained a priority for the government which has taken a firm…
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Migration and thanksgiving – By Hope Eghagha
In the last five years, and this has increased since 2020 astronomically, youths and middle-aged professionals migrating from (read ‘fleeing’) Nigeria, just to any other place in the world, never to return to ‘that country’, has become fashionable, celebratory, and encouraged. Different organisations have sprung up with the singular objective of facilitating the migration of…
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JUST IN: Pastor Adeboye releases powerful prophecies for 2023
As characteristics of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has dropped prophecies for 2023.
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Japa via Libyan route – By Francis Ewherido
It is no longer news that some Nigerians, especially youngsters and professionals, are leaving in droves. I said it a few weeks ago that the world is a global village and everybody has the right to decide where he wants to live. As I said in the article on Japa (relocating from Nigeria), you must…
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To migrants, watery graves, to humanity, a boiling world – By Owei Lakemfa
TRAGEDY. Unimaginable tragedy. What is most tragic to me is not the number of migrants including children from the underdeveloped countries that have gone down the sea to watery graves trying to reach Europe. Yes, this year alone, over 1,200 went on a final dip, never to resurface again, or if they did, only as corpses.
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Exodus of the next generation; time to be concerned – By Dakuku Peterside
Forced migration and its concomitant enslavement of the African was a blight on the world’s collective conscience between the 1500s and 1800s. The repercussions still reverberate through time to the present . Africans are calling for payment of reparations to their motherland by the European powers to date.