According to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics, at least 48 percent of migrants have revealed that hardship had been the driving factor for them returning to Nigeria. This statistic had been contained in a report published on Wednesday, May 17 titled ‘Awareness and Perception of Intending and Returned Migrant on the Dangers of Irregular Migration 2022’.
This report featured a total of 2,400 households, who were sampled from six purposive states from each of Nigeria’s geopolitical zone: Anambra, Edo, Lagos, Benue, Gombe, and Kano States and was created to collect data and show evidence of the awareness and perception of both intending migrants and returned migrants on the dangers of irregular migration and the government’s efforts towards combating the prevalence of irregular migration in Nigeria.
Additionally, the report noted that Kano state had the highest number of returnees from the migrants, closely followed by Lagos State.
