Curbing Japa Trend: BANC Outlines Solutions to Youth Unemployment, Migration Crisis

According to Dr. Chibuzor Onyeama, founder and CEO of Black Ancestral Native Communities (BANC) and an expert in labor migration, irregular migration and unemployment issues may be resolved if the Nigerian government implements a robust industrial system to engage its people.

During the Professional Public Speaking & Leadership Academy’s (PPSLA AFRICA) 2025 Nelson Mandela Leadership Lecture and Impact Makers Award in Abuja, Onyeama gave the advice. He emphasized the importance of keeping young Nigerians, whom he described as having a lot of talent, involved in local activities that would allow them to support themselves rather than looking to migrate abroad to work.

Buttressing his point, he claimed that when communities are industrialized, young people can work where they need to and that there won’t be any haphazard issues related to their desire to leave Nigeria.

“I have outlined a solution that I refer to as the Cirxuitious Industrialization Scheme, which is a program that can build small community industries within where people live,” he said. Due to its indirectness and internality within our societies, it is circuitous. It is small-scale but manufacturing-based, allowing young people to find work in their communities.

Young people have been kept at home if the employment issue has been resolved. However, if you don’t have the chance to interact with everyone who is qualified, including those who aren’t, and if you haven’t helped them develop the skills they need to solve problems, you’re giving them tickets or even making them want to leave, which is what the Japanese are all about.

Peer pressure, according to the BANC founder, is a major cause of irregular migration and criminal activity, particularly cybercrime.

He believes that the Nigerian government could improve his job by establishing opportunities for young Nigerians to contribute to the country’s socioeconomic structure.

“Everyone starts evaluating your accomplishments and comparing you to your friends when you get older, which is how you discover a group of them committing crimes and figuring out strategies to stay alive, which is how you have today’s Yahoo Yahoo boys.”

They are dangerous despite their insignificance, and they are also making other young Nigerians feel very ashamed. You would almost question whether you have committed any crimes as a Nigerian when you leave the country and observe how people treat your passport.

“Therefore, we are stating that it is feasible to retain young people by consciously constructing infrastructure and solution-based industrial systems that can keep the young people involved so that they can unleash their talent and be prepared to work for themselves.”

In his eloquent homage to Nelson Mandela, Onyeama called on Nigerian leaders to fight and work toward improving the nation by electing leaders who would be dedicated to developing young people with ability and competence.

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In the run-up to the general elections in 2027, he called on Nigerians to “look to find the best of the best.” And place them where they belong. You have the best measurement ever when you follow the instructions to place square pegs in square holes and round pegs in round holes.

He lamented that the multiple leadership and policy crises that the young Nigerian population was currently facing in the nation were caused by “political distancing,” in which the leaders are elderly and have few years to live.

Sometimes you wonder how long some of our leaders will have to live to witness the chaos and destruction they have wrought in our country. Subsequently, you discover that these individuals are in their later years and are taking the lead.

The migration specialist said that ending the growing trend of “money politics,” which was impeding active youth participation in politics, was a necessary first step in electing young people to leadership roles as a means of resolving the numerous issues Nigeria was now facing.

“How will you consciously contribute to the improvement of a future in which you both know and clearly refuse to participate? It can occasionally impact leadership quality, thus we know that young leadership will address this issue.

It is important to minimize money politics. because young people in Nigeria lack the financial resources necessary to participate in politics.

“You are an ambitious young guy with a proven track record who has tried his hand at successful endeavors. It’s money politics, so when you want to move into a certain role, someone asks you how much money you have in the bank.

In order to solve this nation’s problems, we should stop engaging in money politics and start taking practical measures. Given that we have all the necessary resources to address Nigeria’s current issue, it is not difficult for us to fix.

African leaders were encouraged by Dr. Lotanna Okoye, Director General of the Professional Public Speaking & Leadership Academy (PPSLA AFRICA), to take inspiration from Nelson Mandela’s selfless life and leadership style.

“Today is Nelson Mandela’s international day.” We hope to teach the present leaders about Mande­la’s way of life, the leadership style and system he employed when he was alive, and all of the sacrifices he made for Africa.

“In addition, we wish to improve the Teens Resource International Center, which is a piece of infrastructure here in Abuja. where we shall raise and educate young people who will follow Mandela’s example as global leaders.