You know, theres obviously people of Nigerian origin in the UK. So, people like to go where they have family or they have friends. Secondly, the English language obviously makes it a lot easier.
the education; and people whove studied, they will want to ret And I think you know,e are a welcoming country and we want to welcome talents, whether it’s people coming to study, or people coming to work.
So, a lot of Nigerians will be tuned to the UK and weve seen actually a very big increase in requests for Nigerian student visas. Thats partly because weve changed our policy.
So ow easier for Nigeriansstudents to remain after their studiesthey can stay for, I think, up to two years ia masters or a PhD, which will enable people to look for work afterÂ
e have labour shortage in the UK at the moment. But we have to balance that because we do t also want to be responsible for a massive brain-drain from Nigeria because you also need talented people.
So the health sis an example where  a lot of Nigerian medics, both nurses and doctors in the National Health Service
We have a policy weve designed, enhance migration partnership with the government of Rwanda. But its actually under legal challenge at the moment.
So tha just one element of trying to deal with what is frankly a huge problem.
see in the news, each day, these boats are coming across the channel with migrants from many different countriesnd it a huge, huge problem
ecause when they arrived  accommodation, it takes a long time to process their applications.
So we absolutely recognise there are many genuine refugees from countries like Syria;n Africamostly Eritrea, South Sudan –people who are fleeing horrible persecution.
So thepolicy is just one component of many that were trying to put in place to address this very challenging problem
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