The United Arab Emirates Embassy in Nigeria has denied suspending or stopping the supplying of 3 months visa to Nigerians move to the country as a results of a theft allegedly involving 5 Nigerians in port.
The embassy in its Twitter handle @UAEEmbassyNGR said: “In the sunshine of the press report printed this morning (Thursday 4/4/2019) alleging that the United Arab Emirates has suspended provision holidaymaker Visa to Nigerian nationals, the United Arab Emirates Embassy in capital of Nigeria would really like to announce these news are inaccurate and stresses the importance of sourcing news from its official channel”.
Meanwhile, the mission told wire service of Nigeria in capital of Nigeria on Friday that “there were no changes within the visa policy at all”.
In a statement, the embassy said: “In lightweight of the press reports printed this morning, and alleging that the United Arab Emirates has suspended provision holidaymaker visas to Nigerian nationals, the United Arab Emirates Embassy in capital of Nigeria would really like to announce these news are inaccurate, and stresses the importance of obtaining the news from its official channels”.
Five Nigerians allegedly stone-broke into a Bureau DE modification in Sharjah space of port and robbed it.
Shortly when the incident, a travel and tours agent, Africholidays, issued an announcement on-line that Nigerian passport holders were now not entitled to a few months visa in UAE.
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs, has delineated the action as disgraceful.
Many Nigerians visit UAE, particularly port, on business visits.
