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qtguru:
I agree there is an impact on family, however another plus side is families outside can help offset some of the issues due to exchange rates, but in the overall goal, it will scatter families to a degree.

Once I get PR, honestly I don't mind shuttling no place like home, just the economic situation na the wahala

Economic situation? Where did you place security?

Family go dey alright.

The command was "Go and Multiply" not "stay one place and multiply"

Omo Eleribu, Omo Ale, Omo y'Ibo....did Japa syndrome start during Tinubu or Buhari's Presidency ? Ask your god forsaken parents if they are old enough to know about the massive Andrew Check-Out of the 80s. Ask your grandparents how and why Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikwe, Tafa Balewa received Western education in the 50s/60s too.

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"The impact of “Japa Syndrome” on work and family relationships in Nigeria today." - Michael Fasina 


https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/opinion/article/the-impact-of-japa-syndrome-on-work-and-family-relationships-in-nigeria-today/%3famp

Nigerians with too much noise. You think you are the nation with high emigration.

Families are dying in Nigeria everyday, kiddddnapping, hunger insecurity, but they are seeing each other without being able to help each other. Japa still better. Make we dey enjoy the video call and occasional visits with peace in our hearts that family members are doing ok wherever they t

madridguy:
A very touching and disturbing write up. Our leaders have destroyed our family settings and culture.

Some of the japa people are simply suffering from complex.

Most of my classmates were extremely rich before they left. Some raised over 500m from sales of their businesses and properties. I am more than comfortable to leave here.

If it's education, we produce better doctors and pharmacists. Their own products struggle to pass our professional exams.

I am a member of the Royal pharmaceutical society. It was easy to pass.

Many of them are not even doing well. If not back to the naira as a weak currency they are not rich per se.

So in essence we should die in this concentration camp, where poverty, insecurity, inadequate health facilities etc all because we want to be with our families. I am very sure whoever put this up is a mole of NOA.
What if our original families are in Europe, probably it was a switch at birth that landed most of us here .
Migration is inevitable for mankind, people flee wars, hunger. Although the wars nowadays are not the bow and arrows, canons guns or even the accllaimed nukes
When your environment does not support your mission on earth move if you can.
Finally migration to me self is not only an overseas thing, how can you stay in a state in Nigeria for almost 30 years, no job in sight, no career advancement. You too, move to another state, you are not a tree.

PatrickOkunima:
Economic situation? Where did you place security?

I place it high too, but without a stable economy, security is bound to be an issue.

CyrusVI:


The writer made it seems like this wave is the biggest ever in the history of Nigeria. Well, maybe it

I just the checked the population Emigration index(World Migration Report)using the U.N data report as the reference and i saw that Nigeria isnt even among the top15 and when u consider the percentage of leaving thr country, its less than 5% in Nigeria.


Whatever the fear of this writes is, like eroding Cultural identity and "dismantling" Family cohesion are a personal thing thats should be addressed as a family unit and do not pose any threat to us as a people on a larger scale

Writes used some scanty and hard-to-verify instances of his friends to arrive at this condition and thats renders the whole write-up a fallacy and baseless fear

God bless you my brother. We full here.

On a good day, there's nothing like the joy of having family, kith and kin and the extended family mechanism around. The psychological benefits cannot be over emphasized. Little wonder emotional needs and family connectedness featured prominently on Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of needs.

However, the situation at home makes it not just necessary but imperative to find solutions to our economic challenges in a different geographical canvass.

Over 200 million starry-eyed and active people with so much unspent energy, plagued by the worst leadership on planet earth cannot wait for these drunken and irredeemably useless leadership to continue to mess their lives up. They have just one life and they have to make meanings out of their lives, hence the need to seek better opportunities elsewhere.

Final analysis: Legit Japa is good but as much as possible, stay in touch and visit regularly as it is convenient for you.

These days, real time video calls have to a large moment reduced the void.

tensazangetsu20:
The second best thing I did in my life was to leave that shithole. My life has improved in all aspects. Healthwise, financially, romantically. The list is endless.

We hear you. You're even richer than Dangote, Otedola, Seun, E-money et al.

There are many young Nigerians who are making it big time and going for holiday overseas with less stress and bondage.

tensazangetsu20:
Whats more important than money?

More money! 🤧

Very funny.

OldSkoolHeadBoy:
Omo Eleribu, Omo Ale, Omo y'Ibo....did Japa syndrome start during Tinubu or Buhari's Presidency ? Ask your god forsaken parents if they are old enough to know about the massive Andrew Check-Out of the 80s. Ask your grandparents how and why Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikwe, Tafa Balewa received Western education in the 50s/60s too.

Proserpina:
Family go dey alright.

The command was "Go and Multiply" not "stay one place and multiply"

Very true.

Can I come and suck your breast for this intelligent contribution you made?

NairaMaster1:
Some of the japa people are simply suffering from complex.

Most of my classmates were extremely rich before they left. Some raised over 500m from sales of their businesses and properties. I am more than comfortable to leave here.

If it's education, we produce better doctors and pharmacists. Their own products struggle to pass our professional exams.

I am a member of the Royal pharmaceutical society. It was easy to pass.

Many of them are not even doing well. If not back to the naira as a weak currency they are not rich per se.

Continue deceiving yourself. It's all about productivity and result not exam.

Proficiency in the Medical fields has a lot to do with practical experience and not written exams. Exam will not make you a good surgeon.

TheBreastSucker:
Very true.

Can I come and suck your breast for this intelligent contribution you made?

Your mama don retire?

This is not just Nigerian. Even Indians, Chinese, Pakistanis, Filipinos e.t.c

NairaMaster1:
Some of the japa people are simply suffering from complex.

Most of my classmates were extremely rich before they left. Some raised over 500m from sales of their businesses and properties. I am more than comfortable to leave here.

If it's education, we produce better doctors and pharmacists. Their own products struggle to pass our professional exams.

I am a member of the Royal pharmaceutical society. It was easy to pass.

Many of them are not even doing well. If not back to the naira as a weak currency they are not rich per se.

In what world is this? Fairy tale?

It's understandable if you don't like to migrate or idea of migration but take it easy with the excuses you give yourself.

NairaMaster1:
We hear you. You're even richer than Dangote, Otedola, Seun, E-money et al.

There are many young Nigerians who are making it big time and going for holiday overseas with less stress and bondage.

Dey pkat. You dey call Dangte lol. How many dangote Nigeria get

CyrusVI:
You obviously didnt read the article

Its not an interview session for people to tell us the pros and cons of past actions, its about the mass impact it could have on families as they tends to scatter across the India ocean with less and lesser possibilities of ever meeting/seeing their relatives again

Those without strong nuclear and extended family bonds will not understand. For them, "japa " is a means of forgetting their families and the problems of their kinsmen. For us with deep family orientation, the fact that my children will not be able to bond with their cousins, uncles and aunties is worrisome. Some have already lost the connection with their kinsmen, tribe, language and culture.

People talk as if the ones left in Nigeria see one another every day sef

CyrusVI:

There would sha be one oloribuu ọmọ àlè wey no dey reason well on this app

Even families too husband in indiana wife in New York

wellmax:
Nigerians with too much noise. You think you are the nation with high emigration.

Don't mind them...!

They make so much fuss about everything, I mean EVERY damn thing!

UbongCR7:
People talk as if the ones left in Nigeria see one another every day sef

There are uncles, aunties, and cousins I never saw for years in the very same Lagos o.


Some people keep better touch via video calling with people outside Nigeria than with their families within the same States in Nigeria.


Relationship transcends distance.

Op needs to be more balanced!


The breakage and distance among families today start within the country, long before Japa.

Cousins and Siblings are no longer relating closely as their parents did decades ago!


This is beyond Japa... There is something fundamentally wrong with family relationships in Nigeria today.


This is a discussion we are not all ready to have.

World is now a global village

Painful as it us, but Nigeria didn't give most people a choice. The best we can do is make it count somehow.

Thanks for this writeup. It stirs the heart and reminds us of what's really important... family.

madridguy:
A very touching and disturbing write up. Our leaders have destroyed our family settings and culture.

Hian! This one you are acknowledging the bad economic situation on ground despite that you are in abroad. I shock o!! Abi the pressure from home don det pile up on you for abroad

OldSkoolHeadBoy:
Omo Eleribu, Omo Ale, Omo y'Ibo....did Japa syndrome start during Tinubu or Buhari's Presidency ? Ask your god forsaken parents if they are old enough to know about the massive Andrew Check-Out of the 80s. Ask your grandparents how and why Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikwe, Tafa Balewa received Western education in the 50s/60s too.

The moment he started blaming Buhari and Tinubu for the wave of japa, I knew he’s Ibo in his late twenties or early thirties

For your info, japa is a Yoruba slang for depart and has been used before you were born. It was referred to as “Ja” as far back as the 70s, 80s, and 90s and losing friends/family connections to the diaspora is not a new concept either

The recent wave is due to the liberal immigration policies of the West and it’s gradually coming to an end as they begin to adopt anti immigration policies

World is now a global village with ur phone u can connect any or all members of ur family. What is the essence of been together and live a low life.
Even if all of u r in Nigeria u may not be together until Xmas or Salah when the first child is in Lago, second Kano,3rd Delta,4th Cross river......

NairaMaster1:
Some of the japa people are simply suffering from complex.

Most of my classmates were extremely rich before they left. Some raised over 500m from sales of their businesses and properties. I am more than comfortable to leave here.

If it's
I am a member of the Royal pharmaceutical society. It was easy to pass.

Many of them are not even doing well. If not back to the naira as a weak currency they are not rich per se.

You mean they sold off their businesses to the tune of half a billion naira? To japa to where, please?

Offpointng:
You're still getting it all wrong. Who's talking bout the availability or lack of availability of money? Can't you just read to understand??

His mind is made up not to see the bigger picture. Quit flogging a dead horse