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By Favour Ulebor, Abuja
The Federal Government of Nigeria and the United Kingdom person signed a landmark statement to fortify practice successful tackling organised migration transgression and different related challenges affecting some nations.
In a connection received by Vanguard connected Friday, the 2025 Nigeria–United Kingdom Migration, Justice, and Home Affairs (MJHA) Dialogue was signed successful Abuja connected October 8 by Ambassador Asari E. Allotey for Nigeria and Ambassador Asim Hafeez for the UK.
The pact outlines a nine-pillar model designed to heighten migration management, fortify justness systems, combat organised crime, and deepen bilateral practice connected information and prosperity.
Building connected the erstwhile dialog held successful London successful March 2024, some countries reached caller agreements connected captious issues, including the instrumentality of individuals with nary ineligible close to remain, promoting visa programmes that enactment commercialized and investment, and conducting associated assessments of superior and organised crime.
On the e-visa initiative, the UK delegation provided updates connected efforts to simplify visa applications, portion Nigeria shared advancement connected its integer migration reforms done the improvement of an e-visa platform.
Both sides besides agreed to curb visa maltreatment and irregular migration done a caller Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) connected Organised Immigration Crime, which aims to boost borderline information operations and heighten the capableness of instrumentality enforcement agencies.
According to the communique, the model volition service arsenic a strategical measurement to dismantle quality smuggling networks and papers fraud syndicates, portion improving practice betwixt Nigerian and UK borderline agencies to identify, investigate, and prosecute offenders.
“Both countries are committed to moving collectively to amended borderline and migration absorption capacity, trim irregular migration flows, and heighten UK–Nigeria prosecutorial and judicial collaboration,” the connection noted.
Under Pillar 4: Serious Organised Crime Collaboration, some nations agreed to research a Nigerian Strategic Serious Organised Crime Threat Analysis, aimed astatine sharing transgression menace reports and processing a National Serious Organised Crime Strategy successful enactment with the UNTOC Convention.
The communique described the inaugural arsenic “the archetypal of its benignant successful West Africa,” underscoring the beardown concern betwixt Nigeria and the UK successful the combat against superior organised crime.
The UK delegation besides handed implicit the Brighter Futures Prevent Programme to Nigeria’s National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), with Nigeria pledging to prolong the inaugural astatine some national and authorities levels.
On extradition, some governments agreed to reappraisal and fortify justness processes, guarantee just captive transfers, and amended coordination nether the existing Prisoner Transfer Agreement.
They further committed to intensifying efforts against quality trafficking, cause smuggling, and different transnational crimes done stronger collaboration betwixt Nigerian and UK instrumentality enforcement agencies.
Additionally, some sides pledged to tackle illicit fiscal flows by enhancing investigations, tightening fiscal regulations, and promoting transparency to combat corruption and wealth laundering.
To guarantee effectual implementation, Nigeria and the UK volition clasp yearly reappraisal meetings, alternating betwixt Abuja and London, to measure advancement and update associated priorities.
The adjacent Nigeria–UK MJHA Dialogue volition instrumentality spot successful the United Kingdom successful 2026, with some countries reaffirming their committedness to accountability, security, and shared prosperity.
The station FG, UK motion pact to tackle organised migration crime, others appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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