The Federal Government has reached an agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to allow Nigerian passport holders obtain visas for travel to the Arab nation starting today, July 15, 2024.
This was disclosed at a briefing with state House correspondents on Monday, by the Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
The announcement comes more than two years after the UAE suspended visa issuance to Nigerians following a period of protracted diplomatic row with Africa’s most populous nation.
It also comes about two months after UAE national carrier Emirates Airlines announced the resumption of flights to Nigeria. The airline said in May that its daily Lagos-Dubai flights would resume from October 1, 2024.
Emirates Airlines suspended its Dubai-Lagos flights in 2022 over its inability to repatriate trapped funds in Nigeria in the heat of the diplomatic fireworks between the two countries.
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