Nigeria approves visa-on-arrival policy for business people
The policy will come into effect in 2017.
Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo made the announcement during a public presentation in Abuja on Tuesday. It at the first annual lecture of The Interview held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja.
Osinbajo’s words:
“One of the chief aims of the current government is creating an enabling atmosphere for doing business and some of us will be familiar with the fact that a month ago, the President inaugurated the ‘Enabling Business Environment Committee which I chair and the mandate of that committee as given to the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment is that Nigeria must go up on the World Bank Ease of doing business list and I think the mandate is to go at least 50 places up before the end of 2017. Now, how will that happen?
“The problem in most cases is that approval processes are difficult. The Bureaucrat sees the whole process as an end in itself but not a means to an end. The bureaucrat does not believe it is his duty to facilitate business. He forgets that taxes generated from businesses are used to pay his salary.
“There is absolutely no shortage of good ideas in Nigeria. Our problem really is never really with great ideas but the question is how to start and finish.
“The share number of excellent ideas available to you every day are not just good ideas but they are incredible ideas.”
