The European Union says it will partner the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and the Pan African Institute for Global Affairs and Strategy (PAIGAS), to end irregular migration of Nigerians.
EU ambassador to Nigeria, Michel Arrion, stated this on Friday when EU and PAIGAS officials paid a courtesy visit to NYSC Director-General, Suleiman Kazaure.
Arrion said many Nigerian youths were risking their lives in a bid to travel abroad to earn better living.
He explained that the partnership will focus on entrepreneurship and skill development.
“The first thing we want to focus on is skills acquisition; skills that will help the youths to start a micro enterprises.
“We also hope to contribute to the policy of dialogue developing currently between the EU and many African countries. Nigeria has a very important role to play in this dialogue.
“One of the issues we have raised is the increasing desire of Nigerian youths to leave the country for Europe using irregular and illegal migration channels.
“We want to work together to discourage this act and to end this, we have to explain the risks, opportunities and various legal ways one can use to travel to Europe,” he said.
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