By: Vitalis Ugoh, Calabar
The just concluded Hague meeting by Hon. Minister Of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu have started to yield fruitful results.
She had secured the commitment of the European Union, the government of Netherlands, and Ministers on areas of immediate support to Nigeria to create jobs for its teaming youthful population as a means of eradicating poverty, unemployment and irregular migration in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda for Nigeria.
The meeting had the European Union Commission Director General for International Development Erica Gerrestsen, the Minister for Justice and Minister of Security Netherlands, Netherlands Secretary General Ministry of Foreign Affairs Paul Huijts, Netherlands Special Envoy for Migration Peter Schuurman, Head of Section Sahel, Africa and Great Lakes Tijmen Rooseboom, among others.
On the Nigerian government delegation, was the Ambassador of Nigeria to the Netherlands Dr Eniola Ajayi, the Federal High Commissioner on Refugees Migrants and internally displaced Persons Hon Tijani Ahmed, the representative of the Minister of Interior Hon Olubumi Tunji-Ojo; Mrs Dukpe, Representative of CG of Nigerian Immigration, amongst others.
Part of the commitments include the visit of the Netherlands and EU leadership to Nigeria for situation analysis and key stakeholders engagement, support for the implementation plan for poverty Alleviation in Nigeria, and the return of Netherlands Long stay visa issuance from the Netherlands embassy in Ghana office back to Netherlands embassy in Nigeria amongst others.
