{"id":373281,"date":"2021-07-12T22:29:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T21:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=373281"},"modified":"2021-07-12T22:48:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T21:48:43","slug":"covid-19-third-wave-sanwo-olu-gives-fresh-directives-to-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=373281","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 third wave: Sanwo-Olu gives fresh directives to Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has called on the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to save the country from a third wave of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Sanwo-Olu charged NIS with a statutory responsibility of preventing further spread of the virus, saying they should monitor immigrants coming into the country through land, sea and air borders.<\/p>\n<p>He stated this when he received the Comptroller of the Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Bauchi Aliyu, at the State House, Alausa on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Lagos govt takes step to prevent COVID-19 third wave<\/p>\n<p>The meeting followed an alarm Sanwo-Olu raised on the disappearance of some air passengers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the governor\u2019s Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, the passengers \u201ccame into the country via Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos but could not be reached for COVID-19 status monitoring by EKOTELEMED because they supplied wrong contact details.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 third wave: Lagos orders religious, event centres to cut capacity<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the gatekeeper, Sanwo-Olu charged NIS to work with frontline responders stationed at ports of entry across border posts to ensure in-bound travellers adhere to laid down COVID-19 protocols.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has called on the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to save the country from a third wave of COVID-19. Sanwo-Olu charged NIS with a statutory responsibility of preventing further spread of the virus, saying they should monitor immigrants coming into the country through land, sea and air borders. He stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":373282,"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":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,5661,250],"class_list":["post-373281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-babajide-sanwo-olu","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373281","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=373281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/373282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}