{"id":69522,"date":"2024-12-30T07:47:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T07:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=69522"},"modified":"2024-12-30T07:47:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T07:47:12","slug":"farewell-nigeria-why-young-nigerians-are-leaving-home-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/30\/farewell-nigeria-why-young-nigerians-are-leaving-home-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Nigeria \u2014 why young Nigerians are leaving home for good"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westafricaweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Japa-Season.png\" alt=\"Japa: Nigeria 63 Years On - West Africa Weekly\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/africapolling.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Nigeria-Social-Cohesion-2022-Report_v3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">to a 2022 survey<\/a>, 70% of Nigerians aged 15 to 35 would leave the country if they could. The wave of young Nigerians leaving the country is what many are calling japa, a Yoruba word meaning \u201cto flee\u201d.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-za\/society-culture-and-history\/social-issues\/farewell-nigeria-why-young-nigerians-are-leaving-home-for-good\/ar-AA1wGaHr?ocid=BingNewsVerp\">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>According\u00a0to a 2022 survey, 70% of Nigerians aged 15 to 35 would leave the country if they could. The wave of young&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-migration"},"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\/69522","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=69522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69523,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69522\/revisions\/69523"}],"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=69522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}