Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada, Adeyinka Asekun, says
the country is unfairly denying a lot of Nigerians visas, including students.
Asekun said many Nigerians were eager to study in Canada but
were denied the opportunity.
He spoke on Thursday at a webinar on Nigeria’s 60th
Independence Anniversary organised by the mission, NAN reports.
Asekun expressed the hope that the issue would be addressed
in the draft bilateral agreement both countries have been working on.
“Canada and Nigeria have for some time been working on a
draft agreement that addresses a number of areas of mutual concern to both
countries. It is our further hope that a video conference call may be set up
next spring latest to finalise the terms of this agreement.
“What is most important about this agreement is that it is
likely to address a situation in which a lot of Nigerian citizens are being
denied visas when they should actually have been granted the visas. We are
looking for a situation in which the process will become much fairer and much
more predictable,” he said.
He hinted that there are provisions in the agreement which
will make it possible for Nigeria to get much better treatment.
Asekun said Nigeria and Canada have shared a long lasting
and mutually beneficial relation in various areas since the former’s
Independence in 1960.
He acknowledged the Canadian government’s assistance to
Nigeria, including its contribution to the establishment of a laboratory in
Lagos in 2014 for effective management of infectious disease following the
Ebola outbreak.
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