WANTED: Informed narratives on labour migration
Participants at the ILO Workshop in Abuja Kofi Yeboah Writes, For a one-and-half-hour flight from Accra to Abuja, anxiety gripped me on my first-time travel to one of Africa’s beautiful cities, but at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Nigeria Immigration seized me for about three hours to burst my bubble. The warrant for my seizure at the airport was a mandatory requirement of an e-landing card, with scores of passengers applying for it from the Nigeria Immigration website powered by very weak Internet connectivity. For about three hours, I could not make any headway online at the Immigration website and inland from the airport, an experience that deported my anxiety of seeing Abuja. After resolving that challenge through the intervention of a lady requested to assist passengers apply for the e-l...