{"id":34474,"date":"2020-10-07T10:49:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34474"},"modified":"2020-10-07T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:49:12","slug":"uae-to-begin-issuance-of-visa-to-nigerians-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34474","title":{"rendered":"UAE to begin issuance of Visa to Nigerians on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"FG<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said it will begin issuance of Visas to Nigerians from Thursday, October 8, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was disclosed by Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, the UAE<\/a> had confirmed that it would start issuing visas to Nigerians from Thursday and that travellers would have a return ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUAE confirmed that they will begin issuance of Visas from 8th of October, 2020. Travelers to have a return ticket, hotel booking, negative PCR result & a Health insurance (similar to Schengen requirement).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHealth insurance can be paid through travel agents\/airline,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recall that the Federal Government had six days ago lifted suspension placed on Emirates Airline from flying into Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sirika had also said that the UAE had written Nigeria, in agreement to issue visas to Nigerians, saying that based on this, decision had been reached to allow Emirates to fly into Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCommencement of the Visa issuance is condition precedent. Please bear with this unusual situation. Many thanks,\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said it will begin issuance of Visas to Nigerians from Thursday, October 8, 2020. This was disclosed by Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika on Wednesday. According to him, the UAE had confirmed that it would start issuing visas to Nigerians from Thursday and that travellers would have a return ticket. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[33,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nUAE to begin issuance of Visa to Nigerians on Thursday » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34474\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34474#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"IMMIGRATIONS\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=33\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"UAE to begin issuance of Visa to Nigerians on Thursday\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UAE to begin issuance of Visa to Nigerians on Thursday » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34474","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34474#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"IMMIGRATIONS","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=33"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"UAE to begin issuance of Visa to Nigerians on Thursday"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=33\" rel=\"category\">IMMIGRATIONS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=17\" rel=\"category\">Travel<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said it will begin issuance of Visas to Nigerians from Thursday, October 8, 2020. This was disclosed by Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika on Wednesday. According to him, the UAE had confirmed that it would start issuing visas to Nigerians from Thursday and that travellers would have a return ticket.…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34474"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}