BREAKING: UAE lifts visa ban on Nigerians

The United Arab Emirates Government has finally lifted visa restrictions imposed on Nigerians with immediate effect.

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this known to State House correspondents on Monday after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu.

Idris said the Federal Government and the UAE authorities have reached an agreement vacating travel restrictions imposed on Nigerians with immediate effect.

The minister revealed that Nigerian passport holders can now travel to the UAE without any hindrance.

He said, “Today an agreement has been reached with the UAE effective from today July 15, Nigerian passport holders intending to travel to UAE can do so.”

It will be recalled that the UAE imposed the visa ban on Nigeria in connection with several diplomatic disputes.

Dubai’s Emirates airline also suspended flight operations to Nigeria over the CBN’s inability to send the UAE an estimated $85 million in revenue.

In June, after a series of meetings with the government of the United Arab Emirates, the Federal government assured Nigerians that the visa ban would soon be lifted.

In the same month, the Nigerian government announced that it had paid 98 per cent of $850m.

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