{"id":120090,"date":"2021-12-12T16:29:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=120090"},"modified":"2021-12-12T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T15:29:52","slug":"fg-to-restrict-airlines-from-uk-saudi-arabia-in-response-to-omicron-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/12\/fg-to-restrict-airlines-from-uk-saudi-arabia-in-response-to-omicron-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"FG to restrict airlines from UK, Saudi Arabia in response to Omicron travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has disclosed that it will restrict airlines coming from Canada, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia into Nigeria from Tuesday, December 14.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed on Sunday by Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Sirika explained that<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0it was to reciprocate the travel ban placed on Nigeria over the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/12\/nigeria-records-612-new-cases-of-covid-19-in-7-states-abuja\/\">COVID-19<\/a> variant, Omicron.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sirika said President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration would also place the United Kingdom, Canada, and Saudi Arabia on a red list over the outbreak and spread of the Omicron variant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recall that the UK had announced that<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0non-UK and non-Irish citizens travelling in from Nigeria will not be allowed entry into the country following the cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant reported in Nigeria.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Saudi Arabia had also imposed a temporary ban on flights from Nigeria over the<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0increasing number of omicron variant cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On its part, Canada also banned travels from<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Nigeria and nine other African countries over omicron variant concerns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to NAN, the minister noted that if those countries placed Nigeria on a red list, they do not have the moral right to have their airlines fly into Nigeria on commercial operations.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There is also the case of Saudi Arabia that put Nigeria on the ban list. On Sunday, I participated in a meeting with the COVID-19 task force,\u201d NAN quoted the minister as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe have given our input that it is not acceptable by us, and we recommended that those Canada, the UK, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina also be put on the red list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cAs they did to us if they do not allow our citizens into their countries; who are they coming, as airlines, to pick from our country?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThey are not supposed to come in. I am very sure in the next three days; Monday or Tuesday, all those countries will be put on the red list of COVID-19.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He stressed that airlines of the affected countries remained banned and the countries placed on Nigeria\u2019s red list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sirika apologised to Nigerians intending to travel to those countries but said the Nigerian government\u2019s decision was in the interest of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has disclosed that it will restrict airlines coming from Canada, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia into Nigeria from Tuesday, December 14. This was disclosed on Sunday by Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation in Lagos. Sirika explained that\u00a0it was to reciprocate the travel ban placed on Nigeria over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. 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