The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says no fewer than 150 Nigerians were disallowed from travelling out of the country in the last four months in the fight against human trafficking.

Mr Abdullahi Usman, the Comptroller in charge of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, made this known to newsmen, while receiving the management of Access Bank at the airport.

According to Usman, those refused departure were within the range age of 16 to 40 years.

“They were sensitised on the reasons for their refusal and most of them were satisfied,” NAN quoted him as saying.

“We told them that if they had gone, it would have been a disaster for them. We also ensure they were profiled at the same venue where the returnees were being kept.

“They witnessed the returnees and it became very clear to them. Most of them were innocent of where they are going to, while some of them knew.

“When we came, we introduced anti-human trafficking to look basically into human tracking issues,” he said.

The comptroller said that no fewer than 58, 000 visas were issued from January to Dec. 5 on arrival to foreigners who arrived through the MMIA in Lagos.

He said that most of the beneficiaries were investors coming into the country.

He said the visa-on-arrival procedure was targeted at investors coming into Nigeria to do business as part of the Ease of Doing Business policy of the Federal Government.

“We have upgraded our visa on arrival from email-based to web-based to improve our services.

“Applicants can now log into the website and fill in their details and also get their approvals directly from there instead of using a third party which was what we were doing before because they have to send a representative here to process it.

“So, the increase in the issuance is to ease procedure and encourage more investors to come into the country to invest,’’ Usman said.

On airport operations, he said that the new Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS), had been installed at the airport.

He said that this was to enable immigration and border officials to process travellers more rapidly and professionally and as well make their border-crossing experience safer and more humane.

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May be the immigration needs to give them some information

Our agencies must step up their games

I hope they can travel to village sha....?

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It is better they were stopped from travelling through human trafficking arrangement than getting there and start crying for help.

Let's all enjoy the Christmas together. We die here...

Why won't they call us sithole country? We queue to get their visa for months but they can enter our country anytime and collect visa at the point of entry just like that.

Shithole indeed where everything goes

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He said that most of the beneficiaries were investors coming into the country.

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Where are the investments?

So many Nigerians especially women are stuck abroad as modern day slaves. They felt it was a good deal travelling from Nigeria to countries like Oman, Egypt, Libya, Qatar down to Saudi Arabia and some Asian countries.
They are promised juicy jobs and pay but end up being used as sex slaves, modern slaves and worse, they get killed and their body organs taken after years of suffering.
Before you travel, especially to any Arab country try to get contact details of any one living there for your safety and security reasons. There are devils on the lose posing as "divine Helpers" looking for victims to steal, kill and destroy.

When one door closes. Those people are desperate. They'll sure look for another way.

This is the way to go, nip it at the source. The Nigerien border should be next.

How many Politicians are among?

Cocaine may be suspected
Our aggressive brothers must be involved


In another news:
How can landlocked region get seaport?

torh

Hope mumu madu is included.

because they didn't grease your hands not because you were doing the right thing. Liars

People's sons and daughters. Trafficking of humans is a global issue even in the U.S .. U . N need to look into it as well

@Topic, Good one from the Immigration service.
This is the CHANGE we want in our country.

The comptroller said that no fewer than 58, 000 visas were issued from January to Dec. 5 on arrival to foreigners who arrived through the MMIA in Lagos.

He said that most of the beneficiaries were investors coming into the country.

He said the visa-on-arrival procedure was targeted at investors coming into Nigeria to do business as part of the Ease of Doing Business policy of the Federal Government.

It is good reading that investors are coming back into our country to invest after they all left for neighbouring countries during the years of looting.

As we have always believed, Slow and steady our darling nation will work again.

We are in good hands.

God bless Nigeria.

We love her.
We believe in her.