ARTICLE SUMMARY
| Title: | The Crisis of Illegal Migration among Nigerian Youth: Probing NOA's Adoption of Strategic Public Relations as a Tool of Mitigation |
| Author(s): | Samuel Chukwuemeka Nwamini, Simon Ugochukwu Nwankwo & Agatha Obiageri Orji-Egwu |
| Abstract: | Media reports has repeatedly shown how promising young Nigerians have lost their lives attempting to seek for greener pasture across the Mediterranean Sea. This desperate journey fuelled by a mind-set that they can only break even abroad has caused many of them an untold hardship. Majority of those who embarked on such journey had paid the ultimate price. This study probes the extent which National Orientation Agency (NOA) empowered by law to sensitize Nigerians on the consequences of such social ills knows and applies strategic public relations techniques in the quest to find solution to the problem.. Survey research method was adopted. Structured questionnaire was the instruments for data collection. The study was anchored on Neoclassical Theory of Migration (NTM). The study found that strategic public relations strategies have been rarely adopted by NOA in mitigating the crisis in question, and thus, recommends, training and re-training of NOA staff on the application of strategic public relations in mitigating the crisis of illegal migration among Nigerian youths. |
| Keywords: | Human Migration, Youth Migration, NOA, Public Relations Strategies |
Editorial Board
EDITOR-IN CHIEF
Prof. Jonathan E. Aliede
DEPUTY EDITOR-IN CHIEF
Agatha Obiageri Orji-Egwu, Ph.D
MANAGING EDITOR
SÃmon Ugochukwu Nwankwo, Ph.D
EDITORS
Prof. Ifeyinwa Nsude
Prof. Angela Nwanmuo
Prof. Tyotom Keghku
Prof. Muyiwa Poopola
Prof. Nnanyelugo Okoro
Prof L. I. Ogbuoshi
Ruth. Chika Okorie, Ph.D
Adeola Sidikat Oyrleke, Ph.D
Celestine Ukeoma, Ph.D