FG MOVES TO ABOLISH VISA REQUIREMENT

The Federal Government has required the cancelation of visa necessity among the individuals from the Developing Eight (D-8) Countries Organization for Economic Cooperation to guarantee free development of individuals and exchange. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, decided when he met with the Secretary General of the association, Dr Seyed Ali-Mohammed, on Wednesday, in Abuja.
The D-8 nations are Nigeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey.
"One region that I think D8 must to chip away at and if truly they need to succeed, they should ensure that there is no boundary in term of visa among those eight nations.

"You can't develop any exchange talk less of tourism, in the event that I can't have simple access to Malaysia, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan. "You can envision the volume of exchange that will create over night if no one but you can ensure that on the off chance that I need to go to Iran that there is two-sided understanding in the middle of Nigeria and Iran, in the middle of Nigeria and Pakistan and among those eight nations that there will be free development of individuals. "It is free development of individuals that will promise free development of exchange.
"Along these lines, this is one territory that I trust that you have to buckle down on.'' Mohammed, who lauded the association's emphasis on tourism advancement, said the procurement of base was basic to the improvement of residential tourism. By, "until you create local tourism, you can't have universal tourism". In his comments, Ali-Mohammed said the motivation behind his visit was to insinuate the clergyman about the association's resolve to concentrate on tourism advancement as the region of participation among part nations. "The meeting today I am eager about tourism. "Recently, on the proposition of part states, we reached conclusion that tourism or so could be one of our need regions.''