Nigeria one of biggest beneficiaries of Brexit — UK envoy

British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, has said that Nigeria is 1 of the countries that benefited the astir from Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU), amended known arsenic Brexit.

The High Commissioner stated this successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) connected Wednesday successful Abuja.

He said that UK-Nigeria commercialized and concern relationships are presently being built connected a post-Brexit acceptable of rules that bolster commercialized ties with the imaginable for communal economical benefits.

Montgomery said Brexit had allowed much Nigerians to travel and live, work, and survey successful the UK, culminating successful the fig of diaspora Nigerians successful the UK expanding from 300,000 successful 2021 to 550,000 successful 2025.

“I’d accidental successful the relations to the Nigeria-UK relationship, Nigeria has been 1 of the biggest beneficiaries of Brexit successful presumption of our visa regime, which has allowed much Nigerians to travel and unrecorded and enactment and survey successful the UK.

“In 2021, we had an estimation that determination were 300,000 radical of Nigerian descent oregon nationality successful the UK, a diaspora of 300,000, and present that has risen to 550,000.

“The diaspora from Nigeria has accrued partially due to the fact that of the post-Brexit migration regime. So Nigeria has been a large beneficiary of Brexit,” helium said.

The British envoy explained that pursuing Britain’s exit from Europe, the UK has had realignment successful its economical relationships and state to bash commercialized deals with wider countries extracurricular the EU.

“So, Brexit is thing that has caused a realignment successful a batch of our economical relationships and immoderate of those whitethorn look affirmative and immoderate of them whitethorn look negative.

“I deliberation that overall, UK has a batch more, if you like, independency and state to bash commercialized deals with wider countries extracurricular EU.

“At the infinitesimal I’d accidental the astir evident illustration is that our narration with the U.S. is peculiarly constructive and is starring to these monolithic U.S. investments successful the UK due to the fact that of the economical freedoms enabled by Brexit,” helium said

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