Nigeria has been excluded from the list of countries whose travellers could be received into Europe when the borders reopen on July 1 .
Schengenvisainfo . com reported that the European Union Commission released a list of 54 countries that qualified for travels into Europe as the union opens its borders that were shut to contain the spread of COVID - 19 .

The commission said that citizens of Brazil , Qatar , the US and Russia would only be able to enter Europe at a later date when the epidemiological situation in these countries improves .

The countries from which travellers are permitted to enter Europe are listed as Albania , Algeria, Andorra , Angola , Australia , Bahamas , Bhutan , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Canada.
Others listed are China , Costa Rica , Cuba , Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea , Dominica , Egypt , Ethiopia , Georgia , Guyana , India , Indonesia , Jamaica, Japan , Kazakhstan , Kosovo , Lebanon and Mauritius.
More countries include Monaco, Mongolia , Montenegro , Morocco , Mozambique , Myanmar, Namibia , New Zealand , Nicaragua , Palau , Paraguay , Rwanda , Saint Lucia , Serbia , South Korea , Tajikistan , Thailand , Tunisia , Turkey , Turkmenistan , Uganda , Ukraine , Uruguay, Uzbekistan , Vatican City , Venezuela , Vietnam and Zambia .

The EU Commission spokesman, Eric Mamer , said the union had the right to choose who would enter its borders .

“ The European Union has an internal process to determine from which countries it would be safe to accept travellers ,” he said, adding that it was “ based on health criteria . ”

On June 11 , the commission presented its recommendation on the reopening of internal Schengen borders on June 15 , so that Europeans could travel within the borderless area freely , just as they did pre -pandemic .

OfoIgbo:
Buhari and Tinubu's government failed to shut down the Nigerian border when every Nigerian was clamouring for it.

Nigerian will now have to pay the price for this government's huge incompetence and lackadaisical way in dealing with serious matters.

Can you imagine GEJ's government being this incompetent?

Rgade:
That's how it usually goes.The west manufactures a new disease,soon enough it spreads to Africa. Then they control the disease in their own countries, Africa struggles to control it too, but fails.
Before long, the disease naturalizes in Africa and assumes an African identity. And then the west begin their subtle discrimination of Africa, while throwing handouts and intervention funds at us every now and then.
It's happened several times before, that's how all these so called "tropical diseases" came about.

Rgade:
That's how it usually goes.The west manufactures a new disease,soon enough it spreads to Africa. Then they control the disease in their own countries, Africa struggles to control it too, but fails.
Before long, the disease naturalizes in Africa and assumes an African identity. And then the west begin their subtle discrimination of Africa, while throwing handouts and intervention funds at us every now and then.
It's happened several times before, that's how all these so called "tropical diseases" came about.