The Nigerian Government had yesterday kicked against the travel ban against travellers from Nigeria to the United Kingdom on the claim that Nigerians were already infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The FG demanded with immediate effect that the UK authorities should review its decision which they described as ‘knee-jerk” apartheid, discriminatory and unscientific. The Nigerian Government insisted that including Nigeria into the list of the countries ban was not based on scientific considering the Nigerian approach to fighting the pandemic which was acknowledged worldwide.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Commissioner of Police Babaji Sunday has announced the prohibition of sales and use of all kinds of fireworks, fire-crackers, and knockouts in Abuja. Sunday warned that anyone who violates the order would be arrested and brought to book. According to a statement by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh, the order is part of a proactive move by the Police to sustain the relative peace in the FCT and adequately contain crimes and criminality, particularly ones peculiar to the end of the year and the Christmas and New Year festivities.

A former Chief of Army Staff, Mohammed InuwaWushishi (retd.), is dead. Wushishi, who hailed from Niger state, was said to have died on Saturday at a hospital in London, this was disclosed by Mary Noel Berje, spokesperson for the governor of Niger state.
Governor of Niger, Abubakar Bello, was quoted as expressing sadness over the development and sympathizing with the family of the deceased.

Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, a special counsel to the leader of Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has today given some insight into what happened to Nnamdi Kau during the court proceeding today. Ejimakor said the court directed that “That Mazi Kanu be given maximum comfort possible in the DSS detention facility. That he be allowed a change of clothing.” The Lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu added that during the court sitting, there was a near-total absence of security operatives within the court premises that almost appeared to him as unusual.

The Nigerian Police Force has today opened its online portal for qualified Nigerians who are willing to join the police force for application.
The police authority has warned that pregnant women, people with physical disabilities are all exempted from participating in the 2021 recruitment exercise.

Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle has announced that the ban on telecommunication networks in Zamfara State will be lifted on Tuesday. The telecommunication services were disrupted in the state on September 4 as part of the stringent measures to contain the raging armed banditry and kidnapping in the state. Governor Matawalle made the announcement at the state congress of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gusau the state capital on Saturday. The Nigeria Communications Commission(NCC) had in September instructed all telecommunications companies to shut down their services in Zamfara over lingering insecurity in the state. In October, the governor had directed telecommunication companies to restore network service in Gusau, the state capital city.