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Abuja - The President of the Senate, Chief David Mark, has said that Nigeria may adopt the same harsh treatments being meted to her nationals by foreign missions in the process of collecting visa unless they start treating them with respect.

Senator Mark bemoaned the situation whereby Nigerian travelers are subjected to all kinds of humiliations by foreign missions before granting them visas, adding that such treatment could frustrate mutual cooperation between the two countries.

Mark’s statement was contained in a release signed by the chief press secretary to the Senate President, Paul Mumeh, and made available to journalists in Abuja.

Abuja - The British High Commission in Nigeria has has lifted the restrictions on its visa service with respect from Tuesday July 22, 2008.

The High Commission’s office in Abuja, through a press statement signed by Oladele Oladokun of its Public Affairs section said on Wednesday, that the resort to implementation of the restrictions on its service was due to unavoidable technical problems at the Deputy High Commission in Lagos.

The release stated that all categories of visa applications can now be submitted, adding that, the British High Commission had reiterated that its customer’s should know that it was still being forced to run a limited service for first time travelers to the UK.

Houston - The name Shola Ajani rings a bell among the Nigerian elite society in the United Kingdom, most of West Africa, and ofcourse back home in Nigeria. While very little is known about this super-talented Nigerian professional in North America, the continent awaits him and his entourage as they storm the United States and Canada, in their first ever, North America job exhibition aimed at recruiting top Nigerian brains presently living or studying in these two countries, back home to work for leading firms in the private sector.

London - The British Aviation Authorities has given approval to Arik Air (Nigeria) to begin scheduled operations to London through the Heathrow Airport starting from November, 2008.

A statement by the airline’s Media Officer, Mr. Adebanji Ola, said that the news of the permit was broken by the Chairman, Mr. Joseph Arumemi-Johnson, at a general meeting with the staff and management in Lagos on Saturday.

According to Arumemi-Johnson, with the granting of the highly coveted Heathrow slot by the British Aviation Authorities, the airline will commence direct flights into the UK by November this year.

France - European Union (EU) interior ministers have pushed for a rapid agreement on new guidelines for controlling immigration, rejecting concerns that the plan would create a fortress Europe.

“It is a good proposal for a common position for everybody,” said Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer as he arrived for informal EU talks in the French Riviera resort city of Cannes.

The “European Pact on Immigration and Asylum” sets out principles for the EU to manage migration, fight illegal immigration and help development in poor countries that people are leaving or traveling through to get to Europe.