The federal government has introduced ‘The Brown Card’, a new legal instrument for worthy foreigners to secure permanent residency in Nigeria. Rauf Aregbesola, in his former capacity as minister of
The federal government has introduced ‘The Brown Card’, a new legal instrument for worthy foreigners to secure permanent residency in Nigeria.
He said the existence of a legal instrument for qualified foreigners is a profound way of making Nigeria prosperous.“One of the objectives of this administration is to lay a solid socio-economic and political foundation that will elevate Nigeria into one of the 20 great economies of the world. “I am still not pleased with this figure. In Europe and America, thousands of foreigners are inducted into citizenship every year. They do this to attract youths and people in their prime who would like to contribute to the development of their countries.
“I will therefore urge the relevant institutions of state to reconsider this in the next effort at amendment to the constitution. We ought to have easier pathways to citizenship for foreigners than currently obtains.
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