By contrast, President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria’s dropping visa restrictions to build its talent pool by attract innovation, specialist skills and knowledge from abroad.

Speaking after talks in Washington with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama says the immigration ban on his compatriots was announced as he was preparing for talks on expanding  bilateral co-operation.

He says US officials assured him the ban would be lifted.

He’s working to ease US security concerns which largely led to the  immigrant ban by sharing information about immigrants’ criminal behaviour, stolen passports and suspected links with terrorism 

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