Nigeria’s foreign affairs ministry has explained that visa technicalities prevented a group of Nigerians from entering the United Arab Emirates.
A video on social media on Wednesday, showed some Nigerians expressing their frustration after they were stopped at the Dubai Airport despite having visas allowing them to travel to the UAE.
However, according to the foreign affairs ministry there were some hitches in their visas.
The ministry’s spokesperson Francisca Omayuli said in a statement that the visa granted to the Nigerians was a family visa, but the visitors arrived in Dubai without their family members.
” The Nigerian Mission in Dubai has clarified that most of the supposedly stranded Nigerians were issued with family visas, only to arrive in Dubai alone without any family members. Consequently, they were denied entry and advised to return to their country and apply for the appropriate visas,” said the statement.
