Nigeria Will Be Third Biggest Country In The World By 2050 — Britain

England has anticipated that Nigeria may end up being one of the three greatest economies of the world by 2050.

The British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Mr. Paul Arkwright, made this revelation on Monday in Lagos as a major aspect of exercises to honor the 40th commemoration of the Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce, NBCC.

Talking on the subject, "Nigeria-British Relations: The Next 100 Years", Arkwright said the UK government was content with the financial standpoint of Nigeria.

He included that by ethicalness of the approaches and speculation propensities for the present legislature of Nigeria, it was glaring that the nation would never again be reliant on help to create.

Arkwright stated, "By 2050, Nigeria will be the third greatest nation on the planet as it will overwhelm the USA to join China and India as the three greatest nations.

"Second, Lagos, Africa's fifth biggest economy in 2016, will turn out to be more essential in the coming years as African case of how to separate obstructions to working together and get remote speculation."

Talking further, Arkwright likewise anticipated that in a couple of years, Lagos would turn into a noteworthy worldwide monetary focus, while Nigeria would develop one of the three greatest nations on the planet.

He likewise unveiled that the British Embassy had begun extraordinary administrations.

As per him, visa candidates could get their visa around the same time or inside five days of use.

The government office likewise lessened the most extreme turnaround time for all classes of visa application to 15 days.

"We have presented a same day visa benefit – at a cost – for visas in Nigeria. We have additionally presented an administration that implies you get a visa inside five days, at a lower cost than that day procedure.

''Our turnaround time for every single other visa is 15 days. The key thing, in any case, is that all guests to the UK, regardless of whether they are from Nigeria or anyplace else, must regard the law and the period of time their visa says they can remain in the UK," the High Commissioner said.

"In 2016, around 140,000 Nigerians connected for visas to the UK. Of those that connected for understudy visas, 90 percent were effective.

''For those that connected for different visas, around 70 percent were effective. There are upwards of 250,000 Nigerian nationals or double Nigerian-British nationals living in the UK right now.

''Some claim the aggregate Nigerian diaspora in the UK is well over a million. We need Nigerians to go to the UK. They come to work together, to study, to see family and to put resources into our economy,'' he included.