This center is the result of a partnership between the Embassy of Angola in Nigeria and the company Akwa Helmes International Limited – AHIL, and, in addition to visas, its areas of expertise also include boosting investment attraction, promoting tourism, among others.
"The center, a partnership between the Embassy of Angola in Nigeria and the company Akwa Helmes International Limited - AHIL, has capabilities for applying visas, boosting investment attraction, supporting the oil and gas industry, as well as promoting sun-and-sea and adventure tourism", informs the Angolan Embassy in Nigeria, in a statement to which VerAngola had access.
In addition, its services will also be "extensive to hotel reservations and ticket sales" and air connections to destinations operated by TAAG.
According to the embassy's statement, the governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, will be the "special guest of Ambassador José Bamóquina Zau to witness the opening" of the center of "economic, cultural and tourist rapprochement" between the two countries.
"The city of Port Harcourt in Rivers State (with about 10 million inhabitants), is nestled between the vast Niger River Delta where the main petroleum and petrochemical industries, two large state-owned refineries, two seaports, universities and science and technology institutes", says the statement, which also points out that it is from this region that a large part of the businesspeople and technicians from the oil and gas industries who work in Angola come from.
