PapiWata:


In addition to your astute observation quoted above, there is a STRONG chance that a total and absolute EMBARGO will soon be placed on the issuance of ALL categories of visas to Nigerians for escape to America, when the tide turns once more for the worse in Nigeria.

2legit2qwt:
Nigerians cancel trips to America and Europe over Ebola?? You're kidding right? Or is this some sort of news satire?

If it's real then I doubt if these people seriously have visas to the listed countries.

adrelanine:
The spread of the Ebola Virus Disease to the United States and some European countries has forced many Nigerian travellers to cancel their flights to some of the affected countries.

This is even as health and immigration officials at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos have been ordered to properly screen passengers coming into the country from the affected countries.

The European countries of Spain and Norway have recorded cases of Ebola, with medical workers outside a hospital in Spain protesting over suspected cases of the disease.

Investigation by our correspondent revealed that some passengers billed to travel from Nigeria had been cancelling their flights over renewed fears of the deadly disease.

Mrs. Tope Philips, who was booked to travel on Delta Air flight to the US on Monday, cancelled the booking and opted to go to a Far East country for her vacation.

“Ebola is very deadly and it is better to stay away and prevent it as much as possible. I will go to the Far East, maybe Jordan or Qatar, for my annual vacation and visit the US maybe next year. It is too dicey to take a risk now,” she said.

Another passenger, Mr. Wilson Johnson, a Nigerian based in Ghana, said he had postponed his business trip to the US till December.

“Thank God I am in a position to shelve the meeting. I cannot go now because my wife also called me from Accra, advising me not to go to the US now. They may not be as serious there as the Nigerian government that took charge of the Ebola situation,” Johnson said.

An official of Delta Airlines, who gave her name as Marylyn Thomas, told our correspondent that since Ebola hit the US, some passengers had rescheduled or cancelled their flights.

“It is becoming a serious issue and I think everyone is trying to be careful since the news broke out. Already, some passengers are showing serious concerns and some have gone as far as cancelling or rescheduling their flights,” Thomas said.

Sources at the Aviation ministry and the Port Health Authority told our correspondent on Wednesday that officials had been told to intensify the screening process of people arriving from countries with reported cases of the EVD.

An official of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, who did not want to be quoted, confirmed the development and told our correspondent that it was important not to take chances in the light of current happenings in the United States, Spain and Norway.

“We just have to be careful to prevent any possible spillover since people come in from all parts of the world. We are battle ready to intensify screening and prevent any case in Lagos and Nigeria generally,” he said.

An official of the Port Health Authority, who gave her name as Mrs. Esther Awoyemi, said officials had been kept on alert and that checks had been intensified since the fresh case of the EVD was reported in the US.

She said, “As you are aware, the confirmed patient in US is dead. We have been instructed to take special care, especially with incoming passengers from the affected countries; and now, we are to be cautious of European and US passengers.

“The ministry does not want a reoccurrence of what happened here a few months back; some countries are beginning to look up to us for strategies on how to contain the disease; so, we have to do everything to ensure that we do not have fresh cases.”


Source:http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/nigerian-passengers-cancel-us-europe-trips-over-ebola/

dasparrow:


Are you and/or your parents not Nigerian? Why then do you wish Nigeria evil? Why is it so difficult for some of you to accept that there are Nigerians who are really not eager to travel out? Are you aware that some of us were born in the West anyway but raised in Nigeria and have lived overseas but now choose to live elsewhere? I don't know why anytime something positive is reported about Nigeria, you anti-Nigeria haters come here to spew nonsense. Is it because Seun Osewa the owner of Nairaland who is a Nigerian and living in Nigeria is being tolerant with your kind?

If you love USA so much, go to an American forum and spew your anti-Nigeria hate there. There you might just get enough people that will agree with your self-hating shady mindset. The Americans you worship will never see you as one of them. As long as an African parent(s) brought you into this world, you will always been seen as 'the African' by both black and white americans. I lived in the US longer than I lived in Nigeria so I know what the heck I am talking about. This platform you are utilizing to talk crap about Nigeria was created by a Nigerian in Nigeria. Seun can choose to ban toxic elements like yourself because this forum is for Nigerians and friends of Nigeria not enemies of Nigeria like you. Anyways, keep doing you. Pride comes before a fall and God has a way of bringing down the arrogant while exalting the humble. Whether you haters like it or not, it is Nigeria's time to shine. If you and your ilk don't like it, go and jump over a cliff. Nairaland will not miss you.

@Post

What can I say? No one knows tomorrow. God hates the arrogant and proud. USA is too arrogant for her own good. She is mystery Babylon who sits on many waters whom God said he will destroy in just 1 hour and she will remain forever desolate. Read the book of Daniel and revelation and read about Michel de Nostredame the man who saw tomorrow.

All passengers emanating from the USA should be properly screened because we don't want Ebola again in Nigeria. Look at the school kids, they resumed school late in Nigeria because of ebola. May ebola keep its distance from Nigeria and Africa forever, Amen.

EternalBeing:
Ebola is from the devil! It started spreading faster through sex from a very promisquous region of Liberia. Everything that GOD created is good, but devil knows he has a very short time so he is trying every means to give man sorrow and use troubles to make men to worship him so that they can roast with him in hellfire. All Glory to GOD for he has deposited the Solutions into HIS Chilren, the Book of Roman 9:19-22 "The world groans and earnestly awaiting the manifestation of Children of GOD" Unfortunately, most of these awaited Great Men are rather lusting away, wasting their lives chasing girls and materialism, intead of disovering their Glorious Destinies. "Do u know how many thousands of beautiful girls from around the world started chasing Ben Carlson after he separated the siamese twins?! Remember David? Remember Daniel? Remember Joseph?!" This was the exact voice I heard that made me stop chasing girls, now they chase me but I'm too focused for that. 10,000 ladies started shouting David's name immediately he killed Goliat. Joseph prevented starvation n became a SuperStar, u don't even need to be a Pastor before fulfilling ur Glorious Destiny. The great Pharao King begged Joseph to marry his extreemly beautiful daughter because Joseph had discovered himself earlier. He knew wasted time can never be regained, so he focused on impacting his generation for GOD. We all have a "Goliat" we must kill to enter into the fulfilment of our Glorious Destiny. Immediately David killed Goliat, over 10,000 ladies started shouting his name, they even composed a song in his name singing on streets. Paul the King, ensured that David marry his beautiful daughter. Kill your Goliat first, then even Great men, Kings and Presidents would use their daughters to beg you. GOD wants to manifest you not as a Pastor but as a Great Man; you could be the one that would make food cheap in Nigeria, you could be the one that's supposed to bring the solution to tribalism in Nigeria, etc... The Book of Romans 9:19-22 says "The world groans, eanestly awaiting the manifestation of Sons of GOD" U n I refusing to kill our Goliats is why Nigeria is still suffering! Your own Goliat could be smoking, drunkeness, lust for girls etc... Kill ur Goliat, fulfill ur Glorious Destiny and beautiful Princesses would knee to you. So help us GOD IJN.

Arva:
This is serious o..this virus just dey kill morale and burning off the atmosphere. Things are not even as lively as it used to be again. I seriously wish this virus never existed. By the way, imagine nigerians saying they don't wanna travel to the USA because of ebola..that's kinda funny but let them say the truth, they don't have Visas.

adrelanine:


“Thank God I am in a position to shelve the meeting. I cannot go now because my wife also called me from Accra, advising me not to go to the US now. They may not be as serious there as the Nigerian government that took charge of the Ebola situation,” Johnson said.

DjAndroid:
I love this news. let there be deliberate screening of the people from those two places before they are allowed into Naija.

First: all of them are suspects; therefore quarantine anyone from US or UK. Then screen them one by one the Minister of Health should go to the media and warn Nigerians not to travel to US or UK because they have Ebola.

It's our time to discriminate against them to too.
Nonsense people.

I love my country jare! !!!

webdezzi:


I cant believe Nigerians reason like this.
Stop feeling supa dupa and enjoy your holidays in the US jor

mmark12:




Please leave me alone, I am entitled to my opinon, Yes I am Nigerian, I live in the Canada, ( Dual Citizens) but travel a lot to the US.

USA is not a proud arrrogant nation.

How come Nigeria hasnt sent any help to its West African Countries but the BAD America has sent aids and troops to Liberia.

Americans are greatly kind and generous people, onlike Nigerians like u that are selfish, proud and arrogant.

TELL ME THE TRUTH, WHAT HAVE TO DONE TO HELP EBOLA HARD HIT COUNTRIES, HAVE U PERSONALLY DONATED TO CHARITIES FOR EBOLA HIT

COUNTRIES. PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE.

U are a nobody, f off

ElekeNtioba:
useless posturing!.....doin shakara for countries with d most advanced healthcare system and where d chances of an epidemic are next to impossible whereas the place they are living narrowly escaped a major disaster.

londoner:



Nigeria has sent over 600 volunteers to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea and maybe you are not aware that volunteer hospital staff have lost their lives also in Nigeria, treating ebola patients.

CNN is not going to tell you that, it does not fit into the narrative of the helpless African relying on the great white/western saviour.

Before you judge, it may be better to do some research.

The US is sending troops, now that they are in the ebola firing line. This is after denying supply of their Znapp medication to the Nigerian government, before they were able to contain it.

US is arrogant,that's common knowledge, but then many countries are.

EternalBeing:
Ebola is from the devil! It started spreading faster through sex from a very promisquous region of Liberia. Everything that GOD created is good, but devil knows he has a very short time so he is trying every means to give man sorrow and use troubles to make men to worship him so that they can roast with him in hellfire. All Glory to GOD for he has deposited the Solutions into HIS Chilren, the Book of Roman 9:19-22 "The world groans and earnestly awaiting the manifestation of Children of GOD" Unfortunately, most of these awaited Great Men are rather lusting away, wasting their lives chasing girls and materialism, intead of disovering their Glorious Destinies. "Do u know how many thousands of beautiful girls from around the world started chasing Ben Carlson after he separated the siamese twins?! Remember David? Remember Daniel? Remember Joseph?!" This was the exact voice I heard that made me stop chasing girls, now they chase me but I'm too focused for that. 10,000 ladies started shouting David's name immediately he killed Goliat. Joseph prevented starvation n became a SuperStar, u don't even need to be a Pastor before fulfilling ur Glorious Destiny. The great Pharao King begged Joseph to marry his extreemly beautiful daughter because Joseph had discovered himself earlier. He knew wasted time can never be regained, so he focused on impacting his generation for GOD. We all have a "Goliat" we must kill to enter into the fulfilment of our Glorious Destiny. Immediately David killed Goliat, over 10,000 ladies started shouting his name, they even composed a song in his name singing on streets. Paul the King, ensured that David marry his beautiful daughter. Kill your Goliat first, then even Great men, Kings and Presidents would use their daughters to beg you. GOD wants to manifest you not as a Pastor but as a Great Man; you could be the one that would make food cheap in Nigeria, you could be the one that's supposed to bring the solution to tribalism in Nigeria, etc... The Book of Romans 9:19-22 says "The world groans, eanestly awaiting the manifestation of Sons of GOD" U n I refusing to kill our Goliats is why Nigeria is still suffering! Your own Goliat could be smoking, drunkeness, lust for girls etc... Kill ur Goliat, fulfill ur Glorious Destiny and beautiful Princesses would knee to you. So help us GOD IJN.

Arva:
This is serious o..this virus just dey kill morale and burning off the atmosphere. Things are not even as lively as it used to be again. I seriously wish this virus never existed. By the way, imagine nigerians saying they don't wanna travel to the USA because of ebola..that's kinda funny but let them say the truth, they don't have Visas.

jacabi:
I wish this virus never exist. It has now become universal problem. May it never find it way back to nigeria.

eleojo23:
Just some weeks ago, it was the opposite. In life, no condition is permanent, whether good or bad.
That's why no one should look down on those experiencing bad times because you never know when it will be your turn.
Ebola has now become a global problem but I believe this too shall pass.

2legit2qwt:
Nigerians cancel trips to America and Europe over Ebola?? You're kidding right? Or is this some sort of news satire?

If it's real then I doubt if these people seriously have visas to the listed countries.

ROSSIKE:


You're dumber than dumb. Stu.pid slave. So it only works the other way round in your tiny, brainless head? Whites avoiding Africa. Africans cannot possibly have a reason to avoid western countries, correct? Dumbito. The only thing left to complete your mental slavery is to get a padlock between your lips.

lastpage:

BTW: I suspect "some" Nigerians might have a higher level of immunity to the virus..... and thatexplains its low level of spread.

2legit2qwt:


Have we stopped our airlines from flying to Liberia, Guinea et al? Have we raised concerns about our porous borders? I'm yet to read lately of anything that publicizes such against countries with over 3000 deaths from the virus. America's only confirmed case was brought in by an African, same with the ones in Europe. These were caregivers helping your brothers, sacrificing their lives to help you. Not until yesterday was it released in the news that Nigeria will be sending people to help their neighbors while your slave masters have been doing it for quite a while.

That said, do well next time at least to make an intelligent comment before showing your level of IQ in a public forum.

2good:

It is most likely satire. However, not everyone is desperate to go abroad.

F117A:
Nigerian airlines have suspended flights to liberia and co long ago.
Atleast get informed before vomiting trash, you mad red-neck.