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Governance as A Pull Factor in Youths' Migration: Re Interrogating Nigeria's Leadership Question and Japa Syndrome

This paper examined the role of governance on trans-border migration by Nigerian youths, otherwise known, in local parlance, as Japa syndrome, and the implications of the attendant human capital flight on Nigeria's national development. It deployed a combination of theoretical modes and relied on trend data in explaining the causes and consequences of human capital flight on the country's development. It argued that notwithstanding the internationalization of train-border migration, the Third World nations, particularly Africa, remain the end losers as the world’s migration trend represents a …