•Uk visa The United Kingdom has updated its list of companies and organizations licensed to sponsor skilled immigrants through the temporary worker immigration route. According to the updated information on its website, the latest list, updated on January 12, 2024, now includes 99,856 approved companies. It marked an increase of 31,226 compani...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu, today, assured Nigerians not to be bothered about the mass exodus of skilled workers from the country, assuring the citizens that the federal government in collaboration with sub-nationals will train more persons to fill the professional gap now conspicuous in health, tech and other sectors. The president spoke i...
•Dr Dada The Chief Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Metta, Lagos, Dr Adedamola Dada, in this interview explains measures being taken by the hospital to retain health workers and how health insurance can reduce quackery, reports The PUNCH. Brain drain (japa) is a very big issue. How is the Japa syndrome affecting your […...
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, today, granted an Ibadan-based travel agent, Christon Wilson, 65, bail for N10 million, over alleged N700 million visa scam. This is in connection with an alleged visa scam amounting to N700 million, specifically related to the procurement of Australian visas, reports NAN. The defendant’s counsel, Mr. ...
•Japa The Home Office of the United Kingdom on Monday announced that it had commenced the implementation of its policy banning Nigerian students and other overseas students from bringing in dependants via the study visa route. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Home Office reiterated that only those on postgraduate research or government-s...
•Japa The Canadian government has relaunched two programmes called to invite caregivers for fresh applications into Canada from January 1, 2024. Canada disclosed that the two schemes are 5-year pilot programmes that allow qualified caregivers and their family members to relocate and become permanent residents, reports Vanguard. In a released m...
•Cardoso and Opara Operators in the banking industry are mobilising $20m to replace specialised workers whose exit abroad in search of greener pastures has worsened service levels in banks. Also, rising network glitches and weaker digital channels have exposed banks to increasing activities of hackers, reports The PUNCH. Mr James Emeka worked ...
•Governor Alex Otti Abia State Government says it has uncovered still on its payroll some doctors who left the state employment to seek greener pastures abroad, in what is commonly known as ‘Japa.’ Governor Alex Otti disclosed this in Umuahia, the state capital at the first Abia State Council on Health at the International Conference […...
Osas Nusakare, one of the 14 stowaways arrested onboard a foreign vessel at the Lagos Roadstead, has confessed that he wanted to celebrate the New Year in a European country. 45-year-old Nusakare said this was his second attempt, insisting that he would try his luck again until he succeeds, reports Daily Trust. The 14 stowaways […]
A veil of anxiety appears to have been flung over university camÂpuses in Nigeria in the wake of academics leaving the country amid the japa wave. University administrators have been thrown into panic as the number of lecturers available for teaching is fast diminishing, reports Sunday Independent. According to Statista Research Department, as...
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