The Federal Government has called for the abolition of visa requirement among the members of the Developing Eight (D- Countries Organisation for Economic Cooperation to ensure free movement of people and trade.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the call when he met with the Secretary General of the organisation, Dr Seyed Ali-Mohammed, on Wednesday, in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the D-8 countries are Nigeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey.
“One area that I think D8 must to work on and if really they want to succeed, they must make sure that there is no barrier in term of visa among those eight countries.
“You cannot grow any trade talk less of tourism, if I cannot have easy access to Malaysia, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan.
“You can imagine the volume of trade that will develop over night if only you can make sure that if I want to go to Iran that there is bilateral agreement between Nigeria and Iran, between Nigeria and Pakistan and among those eight countries that there will be free movement of people.
“It is free movement of people that will guarantee free movement of trade.
“So, this is one area that I believe that you need to work hard on.’’
Mohammed, who commended the organisation’s focus on tourism development, said the provision of infrastructure was critical to the development of domestic tourism.
According to him, “until you develop domestic tourism, you cannot have international tourism”.
In his remarks, Ali-Mohammed said the purpose of his visit was to intimate the minister about the organisation’s resolve to focus on tourism development as the area of cooperation among member countries.
“The meeting today I am enthusiastic about tourism.
”Very recently, on the proposal of member states, we came to conclusion that tourism or so could be one of our priority areas.’’
(NAN)
mORE: http://telltimes..nl/2016/02/fg-seeks-abolition-of-visa-requirement.html

Who wan go those useless countries

Mstchew! They are not even first class countries, what about Canada and the rest

Good Mr bubu is thinking fast and smart...nice move bro

cry me a River

Islamic countries all round.... den wan finish us fully this time around..

Bi lateral trading abi bilateral training..

benedictnsi:



You d call Indonesia and Turkey useless country abi


Any proof that yours is better

Yeah, mine is better...and not some terror prone countries where they can easily remove your head for a purported crime

Which better country dey this yeye D-8 abi Na D10?
Aside maybe Turkey?

Which ever way u may look at these countries. Half bread is better than none.
U may not like these countries, while others may have been seeking visas to some of the countries.
Anyway, if is true, it is a good development.

RichDad1:
Which better country dey this yeye D-8 abi Na D10?
Aside maybe Turkey?

Yeah, maybe Turkey. Left to me, commonwealth countries go make sense pass and not these ISIS wannabe countries

Burger01:
Yeah, maybe Turkey. Left to me, commonwealth countries go make sense pass and not these ISIS wannabe countries

Western commonwealth countries. Lol
Ghana too Na commonwealth country o

RichDad1:

Western commonwealth countries. Lol
Ghana too Na commonwealth country o

Western commonwealth ni o...Ghana bi ti bowo

Pakistan of all places, with extremists littering there shey l wan die!

benedictnsi:



You d call Indonesia and Turkey useless country abi


Any proof that yours is better

Why quoting 18yrs old boy. He thought those countries are where u go and be sweeping or doing night watch job.

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royal231:
Islamic countries all round.... den wan finish us fully this time around..

Bi lateral trading abi bilateral training..

Thank you ma jare. Why India no dey among? Something is fishy?

They are planning to import Isis to Nigeria indirectly.

Hmmm! In this time of terrorism someone is trying to further weaken our already wacko immigration policies.
I hope we can see clearly o! Leaders that do not think things through..

These countries no be am at all. Terrorist countries. They can keep their visa, such countries should not have free entry into Nigeria. Who even sat down and thought of such a stupid idea. As if Boko is not enough.

D8? Pakistan? Iran? Dis naija leaders sef and dia backward hustling! Abeg make dis people go hustle D1 nations abeg! Na yankee or u.k, france, switzerland or canada dem na him we wan go not all dis "osama boys and isis territories!"

chia

Na wah, all these are Islamic countries. Is Nigeria nw a Muslim community?

Ope ooo.. Oya! Mrlaw gbera, Malaysia ya

Bad idea.

Am skeptical about this.

Na so guys go flow into Malaysia like say an refugee camp

Great idea... This will foster development in emerging economies...D8 will one day, rival G8,BRICS,MIND etc

all the rest 7 countries are not in our clique

Burger01:
Who wan go those useless countries

Smh
Sigh

Raphael81:
Good Mr bubu is thinking fast and smart...nice move bro

I pray u will find sense one day