Published• United Kingdom suspends Nigerians’ visa applications as restriction beginsThe Federal Government on Sunday ruled out the possibility of restricting foreign travellers from visiting Nigeria despite travel bans on the country by Canada, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Ehanire described as unfortunate the knee-jerk reaction of some countries to the Omicron strain. He noted that even the World Health Organisation had said recently that countries should focus more on collaboration rather than shutting borders.The PUNCH reports that the WHO had two weeks ago designated the omicron variant as a variant of concern.The NCDC had last week announced that the country had reported three cases of the variant.
In a statement on Sunday, the commission said, “To support the UK Government’s aim to protect public health from COVID-19 and associated variants of concern, UK Visas and Immigration will pause making decisions on visitor visa applications in all red list countries, including Nigeria, until travel restrictions are lifted.
But the minister said the Omicron strain could not yet be declared as a deadly strain because no deaths had so far been recorded across the world. When asked why there was a large number of outbound Nigerian passengers testing positive abroad despite testing negative in Nigeria, Ehanire admitted that indeed, some fake test results were being presented by passengers.
“Because of the very large volume of travellers from the UK, we also have the most positive COVID-19 virus coming from the UK too,” the minister said.
You guys are not going to be running off to UK at will anymore... all of us go soon dey naija
British government knew that you are not consistent ,also your government is not serious .Perhaps ,British government knew that the only language you understand is looting ,and turning white into red .The failure minister of health .
Lol, now you’re pained. But, you enjoyed casting Omicron numbers all in the name of money and support you think you’ll get from International Communities 🤷🏾
Africa and Nigeria, its time to throw away ethnic and religious bigotry and focus on embracing peace and unity so that we can focus and build,its now clear that the western nation ,besides not caring about us ,are ready to crush us to save themselves
Will you ban them or not also that should be the next move not faulting stop playing the slave and act.
What will happen if Nigerians stopped traveling out for at least three months? Nigeria has no National carrier. All the aircraft belong to those that banned you. They will be the ones to experience economic loss not Nigeria. At least some of the thieves will spend the money here
Under Buhari? They'll only fault and nothing more, ban them, they won't. Someone we're still begging to sign electoral bill, you think he'll ban UK, to block his health insurance? 😄 All of them are Yes sir men, he's behaving like a general here, he's a UK puppet...
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FG should ban those on the red list too!
For safety, you were meant to be the One to ban them but you didn’t because you depend on their hospitals, schools, clothing, electronics etc. Now you are shamelessly carrying placards to protest that they banned you.
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