#Covid-19: FG Sets To Suspend 100 Nigeria Passports, For Shunning Post Arrival Test

Tolu Ogunlesi who is the Special Assistant on Digital and News Media to President Muhammadu Buhari has made it known that about 100 Nigerian Passports will be suspended for the next six months for shunning the Post Arrival Test on Covid-19 which was meant to take place on the 7th day of arrival after self-isolation.

According to him, the Presidential Task Force said about 100 affected people had been contacted and confirmed not to have done the Post Arrival Test on Covid-19. He made it known that Nigeria is not banning flights from UK and South-Africa for now, instead, there will be monitoring inbound direct flights from those two countries.

He further said that the Federal Government will penalize anyone who uploads fake Covid-19 test results on an airline portal. Anyone who doesn’t partake in the Post Arrival Test on Covid-19 would also have his or her passport seized for a minimum of 6 months.

PTF says the 100 affected persons (this is only Phase 1, more coming) have been contacted and have confirmed that they failed to do the post-arrival test. Only passport numbers will be published, PTF says, not names. Nigerian Passports will be suspended for 6 months (minimum).
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) December 24, 2020

PTF says penalties will also apply to persons caught presenting fake negative PCR Tests for travel. Apparently it’s a thing – Nigerians cooking up fake negative results and uploading them to the Travel Portal and/or presenting them to airlines.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) December 24, 2020

If you’re coming to Nigeria from abroad – especially from UK & SA – ensure you visit the Travel Portal https://t.co/mi1eEMkobi & upload a GENUINE negative test result before travel. And you must pre-pay for your post-arrival test online, & MUST do the Test on Day 7 post-arrival.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) December 24, 2020

Sept 2020: “The Federal Government has vowed to descend heavily on travellers that fail to conduct the mandatory COVID-19 PCR test. While Nigerians will get six-month passport suspension, foreigners face outright visa cancellation, it said.” https://t.co/Wsw5f4xzK3
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) December 24, 2020

IMPORTANT CORRECTION: The post-arrival Test is expected to be done on Day 7 after arrival in Nigeria (i.e at the end of the mandatory 7-day self-isolation/quarantine), not “within 7 days of arrival.”
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) December 24, 2020