US to resume consular services in Nigerian capital

The US Embassy to Nigeria has said it would resume consular services soon in Nigerian capital Abuja after it dedicates its new 69-million US dollars embassy building next week, local newspaper This Day reported Saturday.

Claudia Anyaso, senior official of the US embassy, was quoted as saying that the head of consular services would be expected to relocate to Abuja though no particular date for the commencement of consular services had been fixed.

"We will be starting consular services in Abuja, there is no date yet but on-line applications would still continue," she said, adding that "the head of the consular service will be moving down to Abuja and we will be offering four consular services which will include business visas, non-immigrant visas, journalist visas and immigrant visas."

The new US embassy occupying 3.9 hectares of land is one of the six new embassies being erected in Africa by the US government. The others are in Ghana, Uganda and Cote d'Ivoire, etc.

Source: Xinhua