 What is Jakba? It's when you try to move out of the country. Running away when everything else seems to be not working in the community. If I say I want to Jakba, I want to leave here. I don't want to be here anymore. Students here at the University of Lagos are facing a difficult choice, and it can be summed up in that one word, Jakba. It means to escape, and increasingly, it's become shorthand for leaving Nigeria altogether.