The United Arab Emirates has entered into a visa-free agreement with the Ghanaian government, following an approval by the parliament of the West African nation on Thursday.

This comes a month after the Nigeria passport was ranked worse than ever under President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime by London-based global citizenship and residency advisory firm, Henley and Partners.

Peoples Gazette learnt the agreement between governments of Ghana and the UAE was signed on Thursday, August 5, 2021, following the adoption of a Memorandum of Understanding by both parties.

The Gazette learnt the MOU is restricted to holders of diplomatic and other official passports whose background and conduct are in line with the public and state security apparatus.

Ghanaian news medium, Graphic Online, reports that the agreement approved was on mutual exemption of entry visa requirements in respect of diplomatic, service/special, and ordinary passport holders.

The news outlet stated that the agreement was executed on November 18, 2019, to waive the visa requirements for holders of both countries’ passports before entry any of the territories, where they are only allowed to stay for a maximum of ninety days.

Bryan Acheampong, Chairman of Ghana’s parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, noted that Ghana has had fruitful co-operation with the UAE and is willing to deepen the relationship with Ghanaian citizens and officials of the United Arab Emirates.

“The agreement, which constitutes a comprehensive framework on visa regimes for both countries accordingly made provisions to cover the diplomatic, service, and ordinary passports for nationals of both countries,” Graphic Online credited Mr Acheampong to have said.

Explaining further, Mr Acheampong said; “the Agreement did not impose obligations on the two parties to admit people who are considered to be of questionable character into their territories, neither did it impose any financial obligation on the two parties while neither country will obtain direct financial gains from their implementation.”

Nigeria does not have any visa-free arrangement with the UAE despite a high volume of Nigerian travellers to the Arabian desert.


In July, Nigeria’s passport performed worst than that of the 2020 ranking.

Henley and Partners’ new passport index report ranked Nigeria’s passport 101 out of 199 countries, dropping six places from its 2020, with the country’s passport holders having access to just 46 countries visa-free, The Gazette reported.

The Gazette in July, reported that authorities of the UAE prohibited their nationals from visiting Nigeria and some other countries as the country firms up its control of exposure to the raging variant of the Coronavirus.


Source: https://gazettengr.com/after-banning-nigerians-uae-signs-visa-free-agreement-with-ghana/

APC government reducing once giant of Africa to a torn on the skin in the eyes of the international community. Spit on them and their supporters.

This is so shameful!

Nigeria will exhale.

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@SENIORWRITER

Alright na

This shows that if you call your country a zoo, others will treat you like animals in a jungle.

Chinese, Osanobua, who wicked Nigeria this way?
Why is Nigeria been avoided like a plague?
Is Nigeria still the giant of Africa?

The worst part of it Nigeria is becoming too bad on daily basis.

God bless Nigeria

DaOriginalCEO:
This is not government's fault but our brother's over there. Most of those guys are not representing us well...if they don't rob, they will attack and kill themselves. No I won't blame our government for this.

We can't even blame it on fulani herdsmen since we all know fulani don't apply for visa to herd cattle on planes, lol.

Na who do us dis thing abeg?

Nigerians are not representing well over there. It is as simple as that.

Not surprise

GardenOfGod:
APC government reducing once giant of Africa to a torn on the skin in the eyes of the international community. Spit on them and their supporters.

I don’t think it is fair to blame the government for this one. The guys who travel to other countries and fraud, drug deal, and commit crimes are to blame. There are still guys on this site that see Hush as a hero. The world is watching.

Has nothing to do with government. Our useless citizens go there and are killing cops, doing cultism, prostitution and many illegal shits. How many Ghanaians are doing that. From malaysia to kenya to South Africa to cyprus to italy to germany to thailand to china. Some useless bastard Nigerians are spoiling our name and imagine. E no go better for me them

God punish buhari

May thunder fire Buhari
Ogun fire Buhari
Sango strike Buhari
Odin strike Buhari
Thor hammer Buhari

1stGenAmerican:


I don’t think it is fair to blame the government for this one. The guys who travel to other countries and fraud, drug deal, and commit crimes are to blame. There are still guys on this site that see Hush as a hero. The world is watching.

How many international companies have either relocated or ignored Nigeria since 2015 because of unfavourable business environment and human rights abuses?

GardenOfGod:
APC government reducing once giant of Africa to a torn on the skin in the eyes of the international community. Spit on them and their supporters.

continue o. The cultist that where mauling people. Na government bah

DaOriginalCEO:
This is not government's fault but our brother's over there. Most of those guys are not representing us well...if they don't rob, they will attack and kill themselves. No I won't blame our government for this.

Thank you for stating the obvious.

So basically, UAE wants to traffick more Ghanaians.

Hammyaladin:
continue o. The cultist that where mauling people. Na government bah

It was reported that President Buhari had spent over 5 Trillion Naira on security in 6 years. Ask yourself what has been achieved. One of the achievements would have been the complete annihilation of "cultists", so they have failed!

This is a Big Shame

UP nigeria THE GIANT OF AFRICA...

GardenOfGod:

How many international companies have either relocated or ignored Nigeria since 2015 because of unfavourable business environment and human rights abuses?

Several however keep in mind that the UAE is known for human rights abuses and unfavorable business environment, just like Ghana and Nigeria. Dubai didn’t restrict business dealings with Nigeria; this has nothing to do with relations between the countries. Instead, this has everything to do with citizens of other countries entering their country. Ghanaians can now enter Dubai visa free however Nigerians cannot and it has everything to do with the way Nigerians have behaved in both Dubai and other countries.

DaddyYankee:
Go and sleep! Must you people blame everything on government? Was it Buhari that asked them to go kill or push drugs in UAE? Some of you reason below standard.

Did you read the content of my reply with a discerning spirit, or you just want to make yourself known as a beneficiary of looted funds and defender of corrupt system?

GardenOfGod:
APC government reducing once giant of Africa to a torn on the skin in the eyes of the international community. Spit on them and their supporters.

Is hush puppy (so many peoples role model) in APC?

PDP, APC, ABC..all have the same denominator. Nigerian greed and selfishness.

The tendency to drain a resource to the end at the first opportunity with consideration for others coming after him.

Abegi

brandmix:

Is hush puppy (so many peoples role model) in APC?

PDP, APC, ABC..all have the same denominator. Nigerian greed and selfishness.

The tendency to drain a resource to the end at the first opportunity with consideration for others coming after him.

Abegi

DaddyYankee:
Just shut up if you have nothing good to say

Corruption is a natural bye product of human greed. Meaning it exist in every corner and country in this world.

The problem with Nigerian Corruption is the 'acceptabilty and normalisation' to which EVERY Nigerian who has been unfortunate to grow in this country has become infected with.

It doesn't matter who is in govt. As long as it is a Nigerian from this generation, the outcome will always be the same.

Thats the reason you are being banned from almost every country.

Its our massive tolerance and propensity to cut conners and beat a process to make gain (something Babangida realised. We dont hate Corruption, we simply want to be part of it. For it to flow)

Its our penchant for celebrating wealth irrespective of the source

Its our ridiculous societal pressure/ need to opperess and not to be financially oppressed.

There is no hope for this generation. The Only hope are the innocent kids yet to be tainted with the fuckery called Nigeria