3.7 Million Nigerians Migrated Abroad in 21 Months, Says Immigration
Over three million Nigerians have officially migrated to other countries in less than two years, according to the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS).
The Immigration Controller at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, Mrs. Adeola Adesola, says that a total of three million and 679 thousand Nigerians migrated between January 2022 and September this year.
She made this known on Thursday during a facility tour of the airport’s renovated E-wing arrival hall.
According to her, 2 million, 115 thousand, and 139 Nigerians migrated in 2022, while one million, 574 thousand, and 357 migrated between January and September this year. The figure did not account for those who migrated through unofficial routes.
She insisted that there had been an upsurge of investors coming into Nigeria since the Tinubu administration, “because many foreigners are interested in investing in Nigeria because of the campaign the President has been mounting to canvass for more investment in Nigeria, which has taken him out of the country many times since he was sworn in.
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“This year, since the advent of this new administration we have seen an upsurge of visa on arrival. We record an average of like 700 requests in a day. People have been coming in. We have seen people coming in; I think the president has been going to many nations, asking people to come and they have been responding.”
“So we saw that people are coming to explore; for example the German people they came. We have been receiving people coming into the country and I’m sure they are here for business purposes. That’s the surge we realized,” she said.
On the remodeled ‘E Arrival ‘of the airport, Adesokan said it had the biggest capacity, more than the ‘D Arrival ‘, and disclosed that the Nigeria Immigration Service initiated the plan to remodel the facility and collaborated with NNPC Limited and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO).
“This project was initiated by the Nigerian Immigration Service in collaboration with NNPC/ SNEPCO. They were there for us. We are partnering with them.
The government cannot build a nation all by itself. So, collaborating in terms of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) with corporate bodies and organizations will be so helpful to build this nation. This nation is all ours and we need to do it rightly,” she added.
