Tag: Borders
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Coronavirus-free Sierra Leone shuts borders after Guinea, Liberia announce closures
Virus-free Sierra Leone on Friday announced closure of its borders for a 30-day period barely days after President Julius Maada Bio announced a state of public health emergency. According to reports, the measure was to keep out the coronavirus which has engulfed all of West Africa except for Sierra Leone. The country tested two cases…
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Coronavirus: Countries shut borders to Chinese arrivals
Countries around the world have closed their borders to arrivals from China, as officials work to control the rapid spread of the coronavirus. The US and Australia said they would deny entry to all foreign visitors who had recently been in China, where the virus first emerged in December. Earlier, countries including Russia, Japan, Pakistan…
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Coronavirus: FG orders screening of passengers at airports, borders
The Federal Government has ordered that passengers coming into the country through the airports, borders and other points of entries be thoroughly screened. This is to prevent the spread of the new deadly virus, coronavirus (2019nCoV), currently ravaging China. The government directive was in a public health advisory on the coronavirus (nCoV) issued yesterday in…
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Why borders will remain shut – FG
The Federal Government on Monday insisted that the it won’t open its borders with neigbouring countries yet. This is an affirmation of the rejection of the calls for reopening by neigbouring countries – especially Benin Republic on the Western border – whose economy is largely dependent on the trade with Nigeria. Comptroller-General of Customs Col.…
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ECOWAS parliament calls for reversal of Nigeria’s borders closure
The recent closure of the Nigerian borders with West African neighbours might hamper the implementation of the free trade movement within the sub-region of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), officials said. Moustapha Lo, the regional bloc’s parliament speaker, said this while addressing parliamentarians at the ongoing 2nd Extraordinary Session of the ECOWAS…
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Why Nigerian borders will remain closed – Customs DG, Hammed Ali
Retired Col. Hameed Ali, the Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), says Nigeria’s borders will remain closed until the country and its neighbours agree on existing ECOWAS protocol on movement. Ali stated this on Wednesday at Maigatari/Niger border, Maigatari Local Government Area of Jigawa while fielding questions from newsmen. “But there is no specific time…
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FG orders closure of borders for Gov, State Assembly polls
The Minister of Interior Lt.-Gen. (retd) Abdulrahman Dambazau has ordered the closure of borders for the Saturday Governorship and State Assembly elections. This is with effect from Friday, March 8, at noon to Sunday, March 10, at noon. Comptroler-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Mr Muhammad Babandede announced this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday.…
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Gambia shuts down borders to ECOWAS delegations over election dispute
Gambian authorities have refused entry to the chair of regional body ECOWAS, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, Senegal’s foreign minister said on Saturday. Such move is dampening hopes for a political solution after President Yahya Jammeh rejected the results of elections that he lost on Dec. 1. Jammeh on Friday called for another election in the tiny…