Turkey to open visa application centre in Kano

The Turkish ambassador to Nigeria, Mehmet Poroy, has announced plans to found a Turkish visa exertion centre successful Kano arsenic portion of efforts to fortify bilateral commercialized and concern betwixt Nigeria and Turkey.

He said the projected visa centre would easiness entree for businesspeople successful Kano and surrounding areas, eliminating the request to question to Abuja for visa processing.

The ambassador disclosed this during a gathering with members of the Kano concern community, including the Kano Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (KACCIMA), describing the engagement arsenic “successful, fruitful and result-oriented.”

“We volition person bully quality and different facilities to summation people-to-people interaction betwixt concern communities. A caller Turkish visa exertion centre volition beryllium opened soon successful Kano to facilitate casual access,” the ambassador said.

Chairman of the Nigeria-Turkey Business Council, Mr Dele Kelvin Oye, said the sojourn formed portion of follow-up efforts aft President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s travel to Turkey successful January 2026.

He noted that stakeholders had been mandated to grow bilateral commercialized betwixt some countries from $2 cardinal to $5 billion, stressing Kano’s strategical value successful achieving the target.

Oye described Kano arsenic a large commercialized hub liable for implicit 30 per cent of Nigeria’s expor...