Nigerians Can Now Obtain UAE Visas — Minister, Mohammed Idris

The announcement comes ahead of Emirates  Airlines'  resumption of Lagos-Dubai flights scheduled for October 1, 2024.
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  The Federal Government has reached an agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to  enable  Nigerian passport holders to obtain visas  to  travel to  this  Arab  country  starting today, July 15, 2024.
 
    Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this on Monday  while  briefing  House correspondents  after  the weekly  meeting  of  the  Federal Executive Council  (FEC).
 
  The announcement comes more than two years after the UAE suspended  the  issuance  of  visas  to Nigerians following a  prolonged  diplomatic  dispute  with  Africa's  most populous  country.
 
  It also comes about two months after  the  UAE's  national  carrier,  Emirates  Airlines,  announced the resumption of flights to Nigeria.| The airline  announced  in May that its daily  flights  from  Lagos  to  Dubai  would resume from October 1, 2024.
 
  Emirates Airlines suspended its  Dubai  to  Lagos  flights in 2022  because  of  its inability to repatriate  funds  stuck  in Nigeria in the heat of the diplomatic fireworks between  both  countries.
 
  Nigeria and the UAE have a long history of  flight  restrictions  between  the  two  countries  due  to  certain unresolved issues  relating  to  the Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA).| Visa restrictions later  arose  as  the  diplomatic fireworks continued between Nigeria and the UAE,  a  major  destination for Nigerian migrants and  tourists.
 
  In September 2023, President Bola Tinubu met with  the  President  of  the  United  Arab  Emirates,  Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu  Dhabi  to  smooth  out  rough edges in  diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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