{"id":11405,"date":"2019-10-06T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2019-10-06T16:10:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T16:10:35","slug":"resolving-xenophobia-in-africa-buhari-strikes-deal-in-mandelas-country-nigeria-south-africa-to-issue-10-year-visa-to-businessmen-academics-frequent-travelers-agreement-reached-at-9th-bi-natio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/resolving-xenophobia-in-africa-buhari-strikes-deal-in-mandelas-country-nigeria-south-africa-to-issue-10-year-visa-to-businessmen-academics-frequent-travelers-agreement-reached-at-9th-bi-natio\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolving Xenophobia in Africa: BUHARI Strikes deal in Mandela&#8217;s Country&#8230;Nigeria, South Africa to issue 10-year Visa to Businessmen, Academics, Frequent Travelers *Agreement reached at 9th Bi-National Commission of South Africa and Nigeria meeting in Pretoria *Decision taken to encourage more people-to-people contacts among citizens of both countries and further strengthen socio-cultural, economic and political relations *During meeting at the Union Buildings, Presidential Palace of South Africa, the two presidents agreed on early warning signals to nip violence in the bud before it escalates  BY NOPESA PUNUELL\/DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT, PRETORIA in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/buhari-south-africa-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5852\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/buhari-south-africa-1-1.jpg-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5853\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" 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860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Resolving\nXenophobia\nin Africa:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BUHARI\nStrikes deal in Mandela&#8217;s Country<\/strong><strong>&#8230;Nigeria,\nSouth Africa to issue 10-year Visa to Businessmen, Academics,\nFrequent Travelers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*Agreement\nreached at 9th Bi-National Commission of South Africa and Nigeria\nmeeting in Pretoria<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*Decision\ntaken to encourage more people-to-people contacts among citizens of\nboth countries and further strengthen socio-cultural, economic and\npolitical relations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*During\nmeeting at the Union Buildings, Presidential Palace of South Africa,\nthe two presidents agreed on early warning signals to nip violence in\nthe bud before it escalates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>BY\nNOPESA PUNUELL\/DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT, PRETORIA in South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GOOD\nNEWS ALL THE WAY FOR NIGERIANS AND SOUTH AFRICANS. Peace seems to\nhave finally come to &#8216;Madiba&#8217;s&#8217; country, as Nigeria President,\nMuhammadu Buhari and President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, for\nthe first time presided over the Bi-National Commission, where both\ncountries have agreed on issuing 10-year visas to businessmen,\nacademics and frequent travelers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<strong>Following\nsuccessful conclusion of the 9th Bi-National Commission of South\nAfrica and Nigeria meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, which was\nelevated to the level of heads of state, an agreement was reached in\na meeting co-chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<strong>The\ndecision was taken to encourage more people-to-people contacts among\ncitizens of both countries and further strengthen socio-cultural,\neconomic and political relations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"African Perspective: Nigerian President Buhari arrives in SA\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ryn59dPDE0c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<strong>In\na press statement made available by Garba Shehu, Senior Special\nAssistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity), he stated that\nduring the meeting which held at the Union Buildings, Presidential\nPalace of South Africa, the two presidents agreed on early warning\nsignals to nip violence in the bud before it escalates, while taking\ninto consideration the need to share more intelligence and promote\nstronger partnership in security.<br>Both countries also agreed to\nre-establish the consular forum, which is a structured arrangement\nwhere both governments meet regularly, at least twice in a year, to\ndiscuss welfare of citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<strong>For\nthe records, Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama\nand South African Minister of International Relations and\nCooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, signed the minutes of the 9th session\nof Bi-National Commission.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resolving Xenophobia in Africa: BUHARI Strikes deal in Mandela&#8217;s Country&#8230;Nigeria, South Africa to issue 10-year Visa to Businessmen, Academics, Frequent Travelers *Agreement reached at 9th Bi-National Commission of South Africa and Nigeria meeting in Pretoria *Decision taken to encourage more people-to-people contacts among citizens of both countries and further strengthen socio-cultural, economic and political relations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[129,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-11405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-nigeria-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}