FG, UK to ease visa problems

BY VICTORIA OJEME ABUJA-Federal Government has appealed to the British government to separate genuine visa seekers from those with ulterior motives in order to check-mate criminal activities by travellers. This measure, the government said, was to strengthen the co-operation which would be beneficial to both countries. Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Patrick Moro, who stated this while receiving the British Minister of Immigration in his off ice in Abuja, said Nigeria's visa review was part of the transformation agenda of the present government. According to him, the country is in the process of entering into series of agreements intended to chart a new course for the entry of Nigerians into the United Kingdom He said: "Immigration officials from both countries have met to examine areas of visa differences and to proffer solutions towards their elimination." In his remarks, British Minister of Immigration, Dr. Damain Green, pledged his country's support towards strengthening immigration/visa ties between the two countries