{"id":30786,"date":"2024-05-07T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigeria-france-strengthen-ties-to-combat-illegal-migration-human-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T06:00:20","slug":"nigeria-france-strengthen-ties-to-combat-illegal-migration-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigeria-france-strengthen-ties-to-combat-illegal-migration-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, France strengthen ties to combat illegal migration, human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>France says it is committed to strengthening existing relations with Nigeria, particularly in tackling illegal migration and human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>France Ambassador in charge of Migration at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Mr Christophe Leonzi, made this declaration when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Monday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to establish more regular dialogue between Nigeria and France, and the two ministries, especially in the area of illegal migration and how to tackle it headlong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother area that calls for worry is in the area of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be of immense benefit to both countries if we can cooperate more efficiently in different aspects to stem the tide,\u201d the envoy added.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, although the two countries have been cooperating in that area, there was a need to delve more into the already existing cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria is a strong partner in this regard, no doubt,\u201d Leonzi said, adding that the cooperation should be reinforced in the area of border security and management.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Tunji-Ojo, said Nigeria would continue to boost its relations with France, to make it better and stronger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stronger the relationship the better it is for both countries,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that development cooperation between the two countries have been extremely helpful to Nigeria over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria, France strengthen ties to combat illegal migration, human trafficking<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France says it is committed to strengthening existing relations with Nigeria, particularly in tackling illegal migration and human trafficking. France&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5035,15,901],"tags":[5039,180,18],"class_list":["post-30786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-news","category-nigeria","tag-france","tag-news","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}