With the spread of the new corona variant - Omicron, countries around the world have been put on alert. Part of what they are doing to fight the virus is to put bans on flights into their country. These bans have been placed on many countries and one of the most affected happens to be Nigeria. According to travelban.org, Nigeria has over 53 bans from out of 243 countries. The issue has never been about the ban in particular but the way the ban has been placed. That is, Airlines originating from some of these countries can come over to Nigeria but Airlines from Nigeria are banned from entering their country. It also means that only their airlines have the monopoly of "not having the virus" or something like that. But this is clearly stamping out the competition and only allowing their country's airline to benefit. As the BBC in a report put its: "there is now a travel apartheid". Strangely, South Africa is among countries banned from entering the UK.

So as Nigeria plans to ban flights from Argentina, Britain, Canada and Saudi Arabia from this week, in retaliation for "being added to those countries' red lists over the detection of the Omicron coronavirus variant"; what do we say about these countries? Before then, how has the level of vaccination from the virus being and are people really adhering to taking it before traveling from Nigeria? News Agencies like Reuters in their COVID-19 tracker report, say that Nigeria's vaccination as of 9th December was barely 2.8% of the population for every 2 injections taken. Travelban.org puts its at less than 5% of the entire population. This is compared to Egypt which has about 21% vaccinated and South Africa which has over 23% vaccinated. Although, this is better than Cameroon which has only about 1.8% and Niger which almost have no data on the population vaccinated. With such low vaccination penetration one can wonder if there should be any Nigeria travelling out of the country at all?
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The Nigerian Government should treat Covid-19 vaccination like that of polio.

They can employ people who will be going house to house to give people this injection.

I agree with the Nigerian Government on banning flights from countries that have banned flights from Nigeria.