 Stakeholders working on migration urged media practitioners to promote women's voices in migration decision-making in their reportage, and ensure that policymakers do not leave female migrants behind when formulating policies on migration. They stated that the neglect of gender-specific issues had conditions that limit the benefits of migration for women, exposing them to gender-specific risks such as harassment, sexual exploitation, and discrimination. Details in this report. The training was organized by a non-government organization, Girl Inspired Development Network. Under its campaign awareness project Connect Her, through the migrant project to equip journalists with the knowledge and tools to amplify Nigerian women's voices in the migration narrative. The stakeholders, including the non-government organizations, the international organization for migration, and government agencies urged the media to advocate the promotion and protection of migrant women's rights through their reports. Speaking on the topic, strengthening women's voices in migration decision, head of Migration Resource Center Lagos Maureen Ov said statistics show that 45% of women migrate on their own, adding that more women are migrating independently. Parties for women as a catalyst, this role of the government, creates a clean environment for interaction by all. So the CSOs, NGOs, state actors, non-state actors and the migrant women, they are free to come into the center and receive all the help they can. We have profiling for them right from the floor here there, so we'll profile them on what they want to do, get them into professional trainings and all. I'm happy the media, you have something here. So it's one of the areas we look at how you can amplify the voices of the women, show things a role played on the government. We provide migration advice, which is very key. Right at the center, they will also go out. We'll see the details of the areas where we provide migration advice. And the centers where we carry it are we go to schools, we go to universities, we go to polytechnics, we go to churches, we go to mosques, we go to markets and communities to give migration advice. There's also the pre-party orientation seminar for those who are ready to go. So we inform them, you agree with me that information is very key. Once a woman is educated, she's empowered. So from us, they're full of fixing, they don't have information. So they don't fix the red light, they don't get the red flag, and for you know, they're limited. But once they are informed, they can take an informed decision that will help guide their migration decisions. So when they are about traveling, they come to us for pre-party orientation trainings and seminars. So in the process, there's a set of ladies that are going to Saudi Arabia. By the time we finish talking to them, you can see that from what they said, the red flag was there, that it would be trafficked. So by the time we spoke to them, they told them what should be, what should not be. Look at what they have in stock. About half of them jumped out. They decided they were not going to begin. And the other half of their ways, the story was not manageable. So they had to find ways of bringing them back home. By the time it became so bad. So we do counseling and advocacy. So these are ways we empower women for them to make informed migration decisions. An awareness raising project officer, IOM, Cypreme Chypta-Carry, in her presentation titled The Role of the Media in Amplifying Women's Migration Decision, disclosed that from April 2017, to date, not less than 34,694 stranded Nigerian migrants have been assisted to return home through the collaboration of the federal government and the IOM. Among which were 19,579 males and 15,115 females. For instance, since April 2017, to date, we have successfully, of course, working with the government partners supported the return of over 33,000 stranded Nigerian migrants spread across different countries. Predominantly, Libya, Mali, Asia, we have Lebanon, have I mentioned Mali? Yes, we have Lebanon and we have some few cases from Europe, but this one is case by case. There is also another set that at times get also confused. IOM, we don't engage in deportation at all because there are times, I know there are some, at times I get a question from a journalist like, yes, we heard that some migrants were deported yesterday or the day before yesterday, can I or I comment on this? No, we don't advocate for deportation because as much as possible, we believe each and every migrant should be given the rightful dignity. Also speaking, a lawyer and migration counsellor, NE10, Ibi Ronke, highlighted the various risks and exploitations associated with irregular migration, especially for women, urging the media to use their agenda-setting role and influence to change the narrative. We have collaborations with IOM and other bodies to enhance the media's ability to engage and empower many migrants. I know that back there, I'm not complaining, I said, we go, we invite, we don't come, other places sell out our data, but maybe what we don't do is to dig out of the box. Now, IOM has what it has. Who has actually thought of how they want to do it? Who has thought to themselves as a media house, want to just have what kind of proposals are you bringing forward? One thing I learned as a lawyer and as a person who is in the brand awareness space is that don't go out of the box square and increase what you want. If somebody says this is what I want to do, what I need to do is to key into what is the value to you. Now, most times, journalists go to organizations demanding the answers that they want and the way they want it. And the truth is that I don't have an obligation to give it to you. You don't say, fall in love with my ethos or my values. But if we start to think out of the box and say to ourselves, I want to be able to do something, this is my focus, this is my, this is where I'm looking at. How do I work out doing this? Remember, think through other ways to engage with the organizations to achieve your goals. To eat here, there are many buddhya buddha to eat online, a few things. You might be working as a particular person for an organization, but I would say over and over again, think out of the box. Participants called on journalists to elevate the voices of women in the decision-making process surrounding migration by, among other things, supporting legislative change and setting up forums with female immigrants to voice their concerns.