Jonathan Orders Issuance Of Visas At Airports.

President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the interior ministry to start the process of issuing Visas at the nation’s airports to prospective investors and the business communities.

Speaking at the just concluded 17th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, President Jonathan said the policy is part of his administration’s effort to remove bottlenecks encountered by investors in the country.


According to him, there was no reason for people who want to invest made to go through rigorous processes of getting Visas into the country.

The President also ordered the issuance of at least 10-year Visas to some of the recognized Chief Executives in the oil and telecoms sectors.

He said it didn’t made sense to him if ACEOs of companies like Shell, Agip or MTN that have billion of investments in the country needed to be renewing Visas every two years. He said all these are parts of his agenda to ease investment climate in Nigeria.

“Let me commend the organisers of the Summit for the choice of this year’s Summit theme, which is “Attracting Foreign Direct Investment, through Global Partnerships”. This is quite apt and timely. It is also consistent with the aspirations of the Transformation Agenda and Nigeria’s Vision 20:2020. This also reinforces the need to do all that is necessary to guarantee the security and profitability of foreign investments in our country”.

“We are committed to doing things differently and to fulfilling our role to our citizens and the global community. We have established clear criteria and mechanisms for benchmarking and the setting of performance targets, so we can drive our economy in a positive direction, in line with global best practices.”



SOURCE Daily Trust Newspapers.