<i>UK recently announced that travellers from Nigeria and some other countries who are not its citizens will be restricted from entering the country following the outbreak of the Omicron variant of Coronavirus.</sub>
Some members of the House of Representative have said the travel ban slammed on Nigeria by the United Kingdom over the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is not an issue of racism but a call on the Nigerian government to fix the country.
The lawmakers stated this while contributing to a motion of urgent public importance moved by Ndidi Elumelu (PDP, Delta) on Tuesday.
They said if Nigerian leaders had fixed the country, the travel restriction would not have had any impact.
Last week, the UK Health Minister, Sajid Javid, announced that travellers from Nigeria and some other countries who are not citizens of the country and Ireland, will be restricted from entering it from 6 December following the outbreak of the Omicron variant.
Motion
Mr Elumelu, in the motion, called…
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