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 Corona virus.

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

God bless President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR)

Everything and everyone is avoiding Nigeria as a plague, God what did we do to you to punish Nigerians with this kind of useless regime..

Time for Nigerians to flock dia country through ghana visa free if u know u go relax is even better

udoakwa:
Everything and everyone is avoiding Nigeria as a plague, God what did we do to you to punish Nigerians with this kind of useless regime..

because MANY NIGERIANS WENT TO UAE TO DO FRAUD. na why we no get visa free

Dregs of the society, we will never be at peace until the country splits or restructure

Obascoetubi:
because MANY NIGERIANS WENT TO UAE TO DO FRAUD. na why we no get visa free

you obviously haven’t visited the uae, you would surprised to find out if any black man commits crime they tag them all as Nigerians and the culprits play along, Nigerians are committing the most crimes but not all
I have met lots of Cameroonian, Ghanaian, sierra Leone Nationals that are big time fraudsters

The Ghanaian can visit free Singapore and the Philippines...now UAE...I'm pretty sure Denmark will sign an agreement too...


This Life ehn...is good to have Sense

Nigeria is going down down the drain