The Keynote Address delivered by Professor Epiphany Azinge, SAN on March 13, 2021 at the Inauguration of the Centre of Immigration Law Studies, Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State, renamed Professor Epiphany Azinge Centre for Immigration Law and Policy in his honour. This Address is particularly pertinent today, in light of the influx of criminal aliens causing mayhem across the length and breadth of Nigeria. The first part of the Address, was featured last week. This is the second and concluding part
Immigration and Challenges of National Security
As earlier posited, our immigration Enactment did not provide for our extensive hand borders, and nothing offered for control measures and mechanism. The consequence of our porous borders and inadequate border control measures, is infiltration of migrants with arms and ammunition. Today, Nigeria’s challenges of insecurity are attributable to extensive porous borders across the country.
The Keynote Address delivered by Professor Epiphany Azinge, SAN on March 13, 2021 at the Inauguration of the Centre of Immigration Law Studies, Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State, renamed Professor Epiphany Azinge Centre for Immigration Law and Policy in his honour. This Address is particularly pertinent today, in light of the influx of criminal aliens causing mayhem across the length and breadth of Nigeria
Introduction
When my seminal and magisterial work AZINGE’S IMMIGRATION LAW AND PRACTICE IN NIGERIA was published in 1998, it was clearly the only work on immigration law in Nigeria. For me, it was a good faith effort to help develop Nigeria’s corpus juris on Immigration Law, and shift the frontiers of our jurisprudence on the subject-matter. I never imagined that almost 21 years after its publication, the book will attract such an enduring recognition that has culminated in the inauguration of a Centre of Immigration Studies in Gregory University.