FG Issues Travel Alert for Nigerians Planning to Travel to UK Over UK Riots

FG has issued a travel alert for Nigerians planning to travel to the UK over ongoing UK riots.

Newsone Nigeria reports that the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday, August 5, 2024, issued a travel alert, advising its citizens planning to travel to the United Kingdom.

“There is an increased risk of violence and disorder occasioned by the recent riots in the UK,” it said.

Speaking further, the notice urged Nigerian citizens travelling to the aforementioned nation to be “extra vigilant and take measures”.

This online news platform understands that Nigerians are to avoid political processions, protests, rallies, marches, crowded areas, and large gatherings according to the statement signed by the spokesperson to the Minister of Interior.

The travel alert comes in the wake of rioters in the UK breaking into hotels sheltering asylum seekers on Sunday as the nation deals with its worst unrest in recent times.

A report monitored on CNN by Newsone Nigeria, says UK rioters set the hotels on fire in a development triggered by the stabbing of three young girls in Southport, northwest England, earlier in the week.

On Sunday, August 5, 2024, the protesters vandalized and torched two Holiday Inns in northern England during the UK riots. One of the buildings set ablaze was in Tamworth, which had previously been criticized by a local politician for housing asylum seekers, and another in Rotherham.