More than 60,000 Indians now live in Nigeria: Envoy

ABUJA, Nigeria (The Informant247) – More than 60,000 Indians have made Nigeria their home, the country’s High Commissioner to Africa’s most populous nation, Gangadharan Balasubramanian said on Monday, stressing most of them are into manufacturing.

“Relationship between any two countries is basically between people. If people-to people contact is very strong then obviously the relationship will further grow stronger and better,” Balasubramanian said in Abuja, pledging to strengthen the Peoples-to-Peoples relations between the two countries.

“There are thousands of students from Nigeria that have been to India. As the President also mentioned, the medical facilities in India are very good and they are very happy to exchange those facilities to our Nigerian friends also.

“So all these actually puts together brings in closer relationship between India and Nigeria through the people which is one of the fundamental reasons of what exists,” Balasubramanian said.

“It will certainly have a great impact on the people-to-people relations. India and Nigeria already have excellent connections in terms of people to people contact,” he added.