Nigeria has been excluded from the African and Commonwealth
countries that do not need a visa to enter the Zambia.
According to a statement on the Zambia Immigration website,
“Nationals of all Commonwealth countries do not require visas to enter Zambia
EXCEPT for those nationals from Australia, Britain, Canada, Gambia, Ghana,
India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Sierra-Leone, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and
Sri-Lanka who need visas on a reciprocal basis.”
Before
Nigeria was added to the list in June, Nigerians who travelled to Zambia
obtained visa at the point of entry.
The new law requires that even for just passing through, Nigerians need to apply for transit visas from Zambian Missions abroad.
This new law by Zambia reportedly originates from an incident in December 2011 when Nigerian businessmen were deported on the orders of President Michael Sata for allegedly supporting the opposition party.
On December 23, the federal government of Nigeria says it was using the appropriate diplomatic channels to avert a crisis between Nigeria and Zambia as a result of the “unfair” deportation of some Nigerians from Zambia.
The change in visa requirement came to public notice when some Nigerian journalists failed to travel to Zambia for the CNN MultiChoice media Awards held in Lusaka.
The Nigerian government is yet to react to the new development.
4 comments:
Is small Zambia,has grown wings eh! so na so
Security is important anywhere,even in heaven there is security,Nigeria is getting to that point that the poorest and anothing to offer as a nation will reject and mark Nigeria as terrorist in d highest order and be rejected, they might be small and not have much but they value d citizens lives
By now as giant of Africa,all African countries shld see it as previlege to be associated with us but it'd d opposite, terrorism,bribery,corruption has been what they see us as, who blame them
I blame them, they shld go and sit inside portorpotor! RUBBISH...what do they have or what can they offer us ....queue for visa...crap!
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