The British High Commission has said the United Kingdom would not reverse its travel ban on Nigeria because of a threat of retaliation by the Federal Government.

The Spokesman for the British High Commission, DEAN HURLOCK, said this in response over a statement by the Minister of Aviation, HADI SIRIKA, that the UK, Canada and Saudi Arabia would be put on Nigeria's travel ban on Tuesday.

HURLOCK stated that Britain had made it clear that travel abroad would be different this year, adding that the UK was sticking to its "standard background lines."

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The Federal Government has ordered the evacuation of trucks and trailers along the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway before the year ends.

It said the move is to ease vehicular movement and reduce damage on the shoulders of the highway.

The Director of Highway Construction and Rehabilitation, Ministry of Works and Housing who is also the Chairman of the Committee, Engr FOLORUNSHO ESAN, disclosed this during an inspection tour of the road.

He said a Presidential Inter-Agency Committee has been constituted to this effect.

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The Federal Government is set to restrict airlines coming from Canada, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, into Nigeria from Tuesday, December 14, 2021.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Aviation, HADI SIRIKA in Lagos.

The government took the decision to reciprocate restricted flights from Nigeria into those countries over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. 

SIRIKA stated that countries that placed a travel ban on Nigeria due to the Omicron Covid-19 variant lacked a moral right to have their airlines fly into Nigeria on commercial operations.

He however, apologized to Nigerians intending to travel to those countries but said the Nigerian government's decision was in the interest of the country.     

The Minister of State, for Health, OLORUNNIMBE MAMORA, also gave further insight into the Federal Government's plan to place on a red-list, countries that have placed Nigeria on a red-list in the wake of a new Omicron variant of the COVID-19.

Speaking on a monitored programme, DR MAMORA said contrary to claims that the said plan was retaliatory, noted the move is only expected to be in the best interest of the country.

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