ABUJA (Min of Labour and Employment Report) – The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said that Nigeria is committed to the integration of the African Continent aimed at promoting trade, movement of persons, goods and services and infrastructural development.
He disclosed this when he received in audience the delegation of the African Union (AU), Labour Migration Advisory Committee, led by Dr. Alves D’Almada in his office recently.
Festus Keyamo pledged Nigeria’s readiness to assist in legislation and policy to support the Committee in promoting African integration, but not to the detriment of the laws of Individual Sovereign States in the Continent.
He observed that the issue of irregular migration to Europe and other non-African countries constituted a big problem in Africa which should not be tolerated nor encouraged.
Earlier, the leader of the delegation, Dr. Alves D’Almada, said they were in the Ministry to explore ways of collaboration between the Committee and the Federal Government to further promote African integration through job creation for the African people, managing migration issues, promoting free movement of goods and services and addressing the issue of visa-on-arrival in the continent.
D’Almada requested the assistance of the Ministry in hastening the process of ratification and domestication of laws that concern free movement of persons, goods and services.
He then commended the Nigerian government on the successful negotiation of a new National Minimum Wage for its workers.
Rhoda Iliya
For: Deputy Director (Press and Public Relations)
