The International Organisation for Migration in Nigeria, has since 2011, trained 205 immigration officers in several aspects of immigration intelligence, detection of fraudulent travel documents as well as imposture detection.

Programme Officer, Immigration and Border Management of the IOM, Mr. Mark Richmond, disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent, in Abuja, on Monday.

He explained that IOM Nigeria, was currently implementing a European Union funded programme tagged “Promoting Better Management of Migration in Nigeria” which has three components: Management Irregular Migration through Immigration and Border Management, Migration Data, Policy and Labour Migration and the Diaspora.

Richmond said, “ We are working with the Nigeria Immigration Service in the area of capacity building and training.

“The area where I am working directly is the area of irregular migration; our key partner is the Nigeria Immigration Service.

“What we have done with them so far, is to establish an Intelligence Unit for the service. It’s a unit dealing specifically with immigration challenges.

“We’ve provided training and IT equipment and now we work on an advisory capacity, we obviously don’t dictate to them.”

The International Organisation for Migration is an inter-governmental organisation established in 1951 and is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all.

It does so by providing migration services to migrants and capacity building on migration management to governments.