COMMUNICATION MANIPULATION AND PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF RELIGIOSITY, MIGRATION AND REFUGEE CRISIS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Religion, migration and refugee crises have become a threat to humanity and global peace and communication has always played significant role. The unending religious and migration problems in different countries contribute a great deal to refugee crisis and humanitarian casualties in the 21^st century. More recently, stories on repatriation of illegal migrants and returnees of emigrants have been on the top headlines in the media, and this has posed a big challenge to the government and humanity at large. This Paper sought to examine the communication manipulation of public perception on religiosity, migration and refugee crises in Nigeria. The article used magic bullet theory. The paper further sought to establish the quest for migration, increase in religious crisis as well as refugees’ proliferation. The study concluded that illegal migration, religious and refugee crisis are on the Increase. The paper, therefore, recommends that, proper education should be given to Muslims and Christians to embrace peace and love, strengthening of family planning program in the affected axis to enhance birth control, improvement of regional security to sealed our borders, tightening security in all the borders to barricades traffickers from smuggling immigrants and emigrants in and out of the country and improvement of refugees camps as well as rehabilitation of refugees for proper reintegration.