Diplomatic Circles

‘High-level’ migration discussions ongoing between Canada, Nigeria: envoy

Adeyinka Asekun is proud of the first-ever Canada-Nigeria Investment Summit last year that brought a Canadian Governor General to Nigeria for the first time.

High Commissioner of Nigeria Adeyinka Asekun says Canada and his government continue to have 'high-level discussions' about migration between the two, after a spike in asylum seekers coming in irregularly from the United States early last year.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

January 23, 2019

The Nigerian high commissioner to Canada's first full year on the job had him helping address a spike in asylum seekers that “alarmed both countries,” and while numbers have stabilized, he says there's more to be done to encourage migration through the regular ch...

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