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June 9, 2021 No Responses

Trump Hails Nigeria For Banning Twitter

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has congratulated Nigeria for suspending the operations of Twitter in the country. Trump, in a statement on Tuesday night, commended Nigeria for the action, calling on more countries to “ban Twitter and Facebook for n...

January 3, 2021 No Responses

Nigeria Bans 100 Air Travellers For Six Months

Citing non-compliance with mandatory protocol on tests upon arrival as outlined by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, the Nigerian Government has placed travelling restrictions on 100 passengers Chairman of the PTF on COVID-19, Boss Musta...

December 22, 2020 No Responses

Israel, Turkey, Germany, Others Block Flights From South Africa

Five countries on Monday announced that they have banned flights from South Africa following the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus. South African scientists last week confirmed that the new variant could see more people infected in the...

April 23, 2020 No Responses

Nigeria Bans Inter-State Movement Of COVID-19 Patients

Nigeria has banned inter-state movement of Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, explained on Wednesday in Abuja, at the Presidential Taskforce (PTF) briefing on COVID-19 that all persons diagnosed with the virus would hencefo...

March 30, 2020 No Responses

Nigeria Bans International Vessels Without Thermal Screening Facilities

Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is to ban international vessels without thermal screening facilities. The Director General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, made this known in a statement on Sunday. Jimoh said that following the outbreak ...

February 24, 2020 No Responses

Nigeria Proposes Bill To Ban Plastics

The National Assembly and the Federal Ministry of Environment are putting the finishing touches to a bill meant to prohibit the production of plastics, which pollute the environment. A member of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, Senator Tolulope ...

May 2, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Bans Cough Syrup With Codeine

Nigeria has announced a ban on the production and import of cough syrup containing codeine after a BBC investigation into its role in an addiction epidemic. A health ministry spokesman told the BBC remaining stocks in shops could be sold...

April 27, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Bans Open Grazing

The National Economic Council (NEC), a forum of Nigeria governors on Thursday banned open grazing in the country. The government also banned the free movement of cattles across the borders from other Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS)...

April 6, 2017 No Responses

Customs impounds N250m contrabands in March, recovers N48.7m underpayments in Zone ‘C’

For the month of March 2017, the Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Zone ‘C’ Owerri impounded 17 items with duty paid value of N112,617,700. The unit during its anti-smuggling operations in March also intercepted and detained a.....

March 26, 2017 No Responses

Laptop ban on flights comes into effect

(BBC)–A ban on laptops and tablets in cabin baggage on flights from Turkey and some countries in the Middle East and North Africa to the US and UK has come into effect. Officials say devices “larger than a smartphone” must...

December 6, 2016 No Responses

Auto Policy: The controversy continues

The controversy trailing implementations of Nigeria’s automotive policy assumed a new dimension on Monday with the outright ban on importation of vehicles through the land borders. Indeed, the policy, unveiled in 2013 by the administration of former Presiden...

December 5, 2016 No Responses

FG bans importation of vehicles through land borders

Importation of vehicles into Nigeria through the land Borders have been banned by the Federal Government. The prohibition order covers all new and used vehicles. A statement issued by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Public Relations Officer, Mr Wale Adeniy...

October 9, 2016 No Responses

‘Rice imports remain banned through land borders’

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has not reversed the ban on rice importations through land borders. In a statement on Saturday, NCS Public Relations Officer (PRO), Wale Adeniyi also denied granting press interview to that effect. Adeniyi said:...