{"id":42686,"date":"2023-02-24T15:49:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=42686"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:49:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:49:22","slug":"nigerias-japa-generation-skilled-youth-leaving-country-in-droves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/24\/nigerias-japa-generation-skilled-youth-leaving-country-in-droves\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s &#8216;Japa&#8217; generation: Skilled youth leaving country in droves"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39119\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/japa.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/japa.jpeg 156w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/japa-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the past two or three years, the &#8220;Japa&#8221; syndrome, which means &#8220;to run, flee or escape&#8221; in Yoruba, has been spreading among middle-class Nigerian youth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onenewspage.com\/video\/20230224\/15470211\/Nigeria-Japa-generation-Skilled-youth-leaving-country.htm\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>For the past two or three years, the &#8220;Japa&#8221; syndrome, which means &#8220;to run, flee or escape&#8221; in Yoruba, has been spreading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/japa.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42687,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686\/revisions\/42687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}