The National Orientation Agency plans to spend N252 million to “sentisise Nigerian Youths Against Japa Syndrome.”
According to the document sighted by Sahara Reporters, a sentisisation programme on available opportunities in Nigeria against JAPA in Kebbi State is expected to cost N77 million.
Further review shows that ‘training for youths on the opportunities in Nigeria against Japa Syndrome in Calabar municipal /Odukpani federal constituency, Cross Rivers State is expected to cost N35million.
Another sum of N140 million was budgeted for ‘youth sensitisation program on available opportunities in Nigeria against Japa Syndrome in Owan federal constituency.”
In total, a sum of N252 million is planned to be spent across the three locations.
Other budgetary items include a sum of N3.5 billion for “sensitisation against drug addiction, female genital mutilation and domestic violence against women and children in the North West Nigeria”.
The agency also budgeted N350 million for sensitisation and enlightenment of primary and secondary school students on the ‘basic duties and responsibilities of citizen, civic and political education’.
In October 2025, the Nigerian Federal Government launched a comprehensive sensitisation programme against irregular migration, flagging a N110 billion investment fund as an incentive.
Delivering a goodwill message at the Youth Creative Conference in Abuja on “Silencing the Guns, Tomorrow is Now,” organised by the Ministry of Youth Development with the support of the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at the weekend, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu, pleaded with youths to stop illegal migration to other countries, stating that the government had put measures in place to empower them.
In September 2025, the NOA Director-General, Lanre Issa-Onilu, was quoted as saying that there were plans to reach at least three million Nigerians daily in its third-quarter nationwide sensitisation campaign.
The Director-General disclosed this during a press conference in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. He was represented by Mrs Margaret Yenemi.
Issa-Onilu said the campaign would focus on five thematic areas, including government policies and programmes, flooding and disaster management, national value reorientation for students (particularly against extreme “sign-out” practices), national security awareness, and the Nigerian identity project and national symbols.
“In these five areas of concern, we intend to sensitise three million Nigerian daily,” the agency stated.
