UAE- The United Arab Emirates has rejected the appeal made by President Muhammadu Buhari to lift a visa ban imposed on Nigerian nationals from October 2022.
The visa ban, however, does not affect persons holding diplomatic passports.
Recall that last month President Muhammadu Buhari made a special appeal for the lifting of the blanket visa ban placed on Nigerians by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Nigerian president, via the phone, disclosed that he had given instructions to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to increase the amount of foreign exchange allocated to the Emirates Airlines, the bane of the now-resolved months-long diplomatic row between the two nations and as a show of goodwill towards the Arab nation.
Since the phone conversation took place nearly a month ago and with Buhari’s presidency ending in June, the UAE appears uninterested in his offer and has remained silent on the matter.
Instead, the UAE has said the travel restrictions on Nigerians and other Africans accused of constituting unrest in its territory through cultism and other illegal activities stay.
