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FG: We issue 30,000 expatriate quotas to 4,000 companies yearly

The Federal Government has said that “an average of 30,000 expatriate quotas are issued and given to about 4,000 companies annually”.
Expatriate quota refers to the approval government grants to companies to engage the services in expatriates with “relevant competences”.
Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the disclosure, Yesterday, in his welcome address at a one-day stakeholders’ meeting on expatriate quota administration in Abuja.
According to the minister, the importance of Business Permit and Expatriate quota administration, had necessitated the inauguration of a nine-man Special Task Force on December 1, 2020.
Among others, the task force was saddled with the responsibility to investigate, inspect, penalise and enforce sanctions on organisations confirmed to have abused the utilisation of expatriate quotas in Nigeria; whether they are indigenous, joint ventures or wholly foreign.

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