United Kingdom red list

United Kingdom has on Tuesday said Nigeria and 10 other countries will be removed from its travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. Recall that British government on December 4 placed Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi,…

Nigeria has initiated diplomatic steps to reverse the country’s inclusion into a red list by some nations. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, who represented the Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Boss…

United Kingdom has released a new update on the processing of visa applications for countries on its red list. On Sunday, the British High Commission announced that it will “pause making decisions” on visitor visa applications from all…

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has condemned the red listing of Nigeria by the United Kingdom government over the three cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, Mr…

Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has expressed disappointment over United Kingdom government’s placement of Nigeria on its red list following the detection of COVID-19 Omicron variant. “We were not very happy when six countries…