Omicron: Why Is Nigeria On The Travel Red List? By Jake Horton, BBC Reality Check Nigeria has been placed on the UK’s travel red list – a move the UK government says will help slow the spread of the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus. The Nigerian high commissioner to the United Kingdom has said the restrictions amount to “travel apartheid”. So why has Nigeria been added to the red list, and are the measures fair? What is the red list? Nigeria is the latest African country to join the UK’s travel red list – along with South Africa, Namibia,…
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has eulogised the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on his 70th birthday. Gbajabiamila said Lai has distinguished himself as a patriotic Nigerian whose services to his fatherland are laudable. The Speaker described Lai as a dependable and diligent politician, who helped in making the ruling APC become what it is today, especially when he served as the National Publicity Secretary of the party as well as the spokesman of the defunct ACN, one of the legacy parties that formed the current ruling party. As a core progressive,…
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has turned down the request for the bail of the detained founder of Hilton Hotel in Ile-Ife, Dr Ramon Adegoke Adedoyin. The ruling was delivered on Tuesday by Justice Inyang Ekwo following Adedoyin’s ex -parte motion, filed along with a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed before the court, prayed to be admitted to bail pending the conclusion of investigation by the police or pending the determination of his fundamental human rights enforcement suit. In the alternative, Adedoyin asked the court to grant him the permission to have access to quality medical facilities of…
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday launched Borno State’s Basic Healthcare Provision Fund, with the disbursement of N418m to 79 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across the State. Launch held at the Multipurpose Hall of the Government House in Maiduguri, with the participation of Zulum, the Minister of State for Health, who was represented, as well as the National President of the Nigerian Medical Association, and other healthcare stakeholders. The fund with a total of N418, 941,339.70 kobo is meant for primary healthcare centers to sustainably procure drugs, some medical consumables, and also fund some human resource and managerial needs for…
The House of Representatives has ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, to immediately take over the investigation of the circumstances, which led to the death of a student of Dowen College, Lekki, the late Sylvester Oromoni. He is also to investigate other similar killings and human rights abuses earlier reported in boarding schools across the country and see to the prosecution of the perpetrators. Oromoni’s death, the rising cases of abuses and cult-related activities in boarding schools in the country, came up in the House under matters of public importance on Tuesday. A member from Akwa Ibom State,…
The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and members of Congress Committee has reportedly filed a motion before the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal for a stay of execution of an FCT High Court ruling that voided ward congresses of the party in Kano State. The state commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba, who stated this in a statement in Abuja also revealed that the APC was contesting the jurisdiction of the court to entertain such case brought before it. He said the party was seeking an interlocutory injunction that would restrain the respondents…
The Chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum and governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has accepted resignation letter of Mr Biodun Oyebanji as Secretary to Ekiti State Government. Oyebode said the resignation which was conveyed in a letter to the governor and dated Dec. 3, took effect from Tuesday, Dec. 7. According to him, Oyebanji cited his decision to contest the forth-coming governorship election in the state for his resignation as SSG. “Gov. Fayemi in accepting Oyebanji’s resignation thanked the former SSG for his remarkable contribution to the administration since inception in 2018. “He also wished him well in his…
Ralf Rangnick has confirmed which of his Manchester United players will wear the captain’s armband for Wednesday’s Champions League game with Young Boys at Old Trafford. The Reds have already sealed top spot in Group F and, therefore, a position as one of the eight seeds for next Monday’s round-of-16 draw. Although the Swiss champions will still be looking for a result in order to finish third in the pool and make it into the Europa League after Christmas, Rangnick has been afforded the relatively rare luxury of being able to rotate his side in what will be his first…
As the race for the 2023 presidential election draws closer in Nigeria, influential politicians who have ambition to contest the election are trying to win power brokers and bigwigs in their political parties. On the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, the former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, is heavily linked to the 2023 presidency and tipped to fly the ticket of APC. Although Tinubu has not declared officially to contest for the presidential election, his body language and the launching of the South West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA) by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu…
Kano State Governor, Mr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has criticised his colleagues and political friends in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for abandoning him and officially recognising a faction which has taken control of the party machinery in the state. Ganduje is particularly not happy with the Governors of Jigawa and Ekiti States, Alhaji Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar and Kayode Fayemi for ditching him despite their closeness and open-hearted discussion over orchestrated move by the Senator Ibrahim Shekarau factional group to control the party, saying he obtained promises of their support. Unfortunately for Ganduje, this was not to be as the…