Africa-Press – Angola. A Visa Application Center in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt to eliminate trips to Abuja and Lagos will be opened this Tuesday, as part of activities related to April 4th, Day of Peace and National Reconciliation.
According to a press release, the center, a partnership between the Embassy of Angola in Nigeria and the company Akwa Helmes International Limited (AHIL), aims to boost the attraction of investments, support the oil and gas industry, as well as promote tourism.
Its services will extend to hotel reservations and ticket sales and air connections to destinations operated by the national carrier TAAG.
The governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara is the special guest of ambassador José Bamoquina Zau to witness the opening of the economic, cultural and tourist rapprochement center between Angola and Nigeria.
The city of Port Harcourt, in Rivers State, with around 10 million inhabitants, is located between the vast Niger River Delta, where the main petroleum and petrochemical industries, two large public refineries, two seaports, universities and institutes of science and technology.
It is in this region that most of the businessmen and technicians in the oil and gas industries operating in Angola come from.
The region has the second largest port in Nigeria and a narrow-gauge eastern railway project stretching over more than two thousand kilometers to connect Port Harcourt with Northern Maiuguri, Borno State, passing through 12 states and numerous large cities in the eastern, central and northern regions of Nigeria.
Political and diplomatic relations between Angola and Nigeria date back to 1975. The two countries are members of the African Union Peace and Security Council (CPS-AU) and the Gulf of Guinea Commission (CGG), with cooperation based on , especially in the fields of defense and security, oil, education, culture and transport.
In the last three years, the value of goods exports from Angola to Nigeria stood at 5.6 million dollars and its imports stood at 16.8 million dollars, corresponding to a negative trade balance of around 11.2 million dollars.
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