The Federal Government has commenced the implementation of its visa-on-arrival policy for Africans.
It was gathered that the visa-on-arrival policy commenced on January first, as planned and that the Nigeria Immigration Service has deployed a new border management security system in four airports across the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari has on December eleventh, 2018 at the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development in Africa, in Cairo, Egypt, announced the visa-on-arrival policy for Africans where he said that Nigeria has already taken the strategic decision to bring down barriers that had hindered the free movement of the people within the continent by introducing the issuance of visa at the point of entry into Nigeria to all persons holding passports of African countries with effect from January 2020.
Meanwhile, Senator Jibrin Barau has called on the National Assembly to provide legal backing to the policy, adding that the visa-on-arrival policy is being practised in developed countries and that it could open a country’s economy to emerging markets and investment opportunities.
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