Nigeria

The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional group of fifteen countries, founded in 1975. Its mission is to promote economic integration in "all fields of economic activity, particularly industry, transport, telecommunications, energy, agriculture, natural resources, commerce, monetary and financial questions, social and cultural matters .....".

ECOWAS has introduced the ECOWAS Passport and APEC has put in place an APEC-visa for certain categories of people to facilitate their movement in these groupings' member States. 

'Strengthening African and Middle Eastern Diaspora Policy through South-South Exchange' (AMEDIP) is a project of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), developed and implemented within the framework of the Dialogue on Mediterranean Transit Migration (MTM). More specifically, AMEDIP builds directly upon the previous MTM initiative 'Linking Emigrant Communities for More Development - Inventory of Institutional Capacities and Practices', implemented by ICMPD and IOM in the period 2009 - 2010.

The MTM Interactive Map on Migration (i-Map) is an online interactive platform in support of the Mediterranean Migration Dialogue.

The country profiles provide factual, non-analytical information and a series of graphs illustrating the main datasets relevant to Migration and Development in the country.

The profiles give access to a plethora of information sources through hyperlinks and they cover the following thematic areas:

Since the ending of military rule with the democratic elections in 1999, Nigeria has made some progress in adapting its governing mechanisms from a command to a consensual basis. Democratic and economic reforms, particularly at federal level, have helped to improve the country's investment climate and economic prospects through realistic efforts to consolidate the banking sector, control public expenditure and reduce public debt whilst continued efforts will be needed to curb corruption.

Broadening the scope of the Nigeria-EU dialogue

Nigeria is an important destination country for migrants in the West African region. The latest available figures indicate that the number of immigrants residing in Nigeria has more than doubled in recent decades. The majority of immigrants in Nigeria are from neighbouring ECOWAS countries.

The UK has bilateral co-operations with remittance receiving countries to support their financial sector development, which include the support of mobile banking technology in Kenya and elsewhere in Eastern Africa, and the development of a debit card infrastructure in South Africa.

National Electronic Labour Exchange (NELEX) project is an innovative platform which is designed to evolve a database of employable Labour in the Country so as to facilitate the job exchange functions of the Ministry.

On NELEX website, you can get the right type of candidate. Our database comprises of employed and unemployed persons that are active searching for work.

Employers and Licenced Private Employment Agencies are allowed to mine through the abundant human capital resources available to arrive at the best mix of jobseekers to fill that job vacancy.

The House Committee on Diaspora established the NiDO's (Nigerians in Diaspora Organizations) to form a global network of all Nigerians living outside Nigeria in order to enable a focused contribution to development through collective efforts en engagement.

The National Policy on Labour Migration addresses the following three broad objectives:

• Promotion of good governance of labour migration;
• Protection of migrant workers and promotion of their welfare and that of families left behind;
• Optimization of the benefits of labour migration on development while mitigating its adverse impact

Specific objectives

Governance

The Ministry of Labour and Productivity invoked the provision of the Labour Act of Nigeria in 2006 to begin the registration of private employment agencies. Conditions for registration as private employment agencies were made stringent enough to discourage fraudulent companies from engaging in job matching and labour contracting both domestically and internationally.