{"id":295850,"date":"2020-12-22T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=295850"},"modified":"2020-12-22T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:52:10","slug":"covid-19-why-we-didnt-ban-flights-from-uk-nigerian-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=295850","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Why we didn&#8217;t ban flights from UK &#8211; Nigerian govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigerian Government has given reason it has not banned flights from the UK into the country despite the mutated strain of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, speaking on a Radio Nigeria programme, \u201cPolitics Nationwide\u2019\u2019 on Tuesday in Abuja, said will require the concurrence of neighbouring countries for the ban to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>The minister added that although the government was concerned about importing COVID-19 new strain, it does not want to take a hasty decision.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Presidential Committee on COVID-19 decided to watch the development for the time being after its meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He said they are working with West African Health Organisations and other neighbouring countries, particularly, Benin Republic, Togo and Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not want to take a hasty decision to ban flights from the UK into Nigeria only to find out our people are going through Cotonou, Lome or Accra to come into the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the Airlines will do is to transfer Nigerian passengers to these routes, and they will enter the country through the land borders<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will lead into hardship to Nigerians because if you transfer your economy to other countries, you lose a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed, however, if the country gets the concurrence of these other countries, it will not hesitate to do the needful.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Government has given reason it has not banned flights from the UK into the country despite the mutated strain of COVID-19. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, speaking on a Radio Nigeria programme, \u201cPolitics Nationwide\u2019\u2019 on Tuesday in Abuja, said will require the concurrence of neighbouring countries for the ban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,5973],"class_list":["post-295850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-lai-muhammad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}