Terror threat: UK repeats call on foreign nationals to evacuate 12 Nigerian states

The United Kingdom government has repeated calls on foreign nationals to leave twelve Nigerian states following a serious intelligence that such states may be rocked by terror attacks in no distance time.

The statement reads: “The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO, advises against all travel to Borno State, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe, Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, and the riverine areas of Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River states,” UK

Congress gathered that the United Kingdom had warned its citizens against traveling to some Nigerian States, including Abuja the nation’s capital, following the initial terror alert it issued last month.

It would be recalled that the UK, the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Germany, and Bulgaria were among the countries that warned their citizens to avoid essential Nigerian travel and avoid crowded places. Some of these countries’ citizens have reportedly been asked to consider leaving the country over an imminent terror alert.

In a travel advisory update released on Monday by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the UK government warned that from ‘Amber’ the citizens are ‘advised against all but essential travel,’ urging the citizens to check the travel advisory regularly.

“The FCDO no longer advises against all but essential travel to the Federal Capital Territory, including the city of Abuja, but risks remain, and further details about the continued threat from terrorism in this region have been added. The FCDO’s advice against traveling to other areas of Nigeria remains in place.

“The FCDO advises against all travel to Borno State, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe, Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, and the riverine areas of Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River states,” it said in the reviewed advisory on Monday, published on its site.

It listed other states as risk areas and only advised travels to the places on very essential basis.

“The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to Bauchi State, Kano Jigawa, Niger, Sokoto, Kogi, within 20km of the border with Niger in Kebbi State, Abia, non-riverine areas of Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers states, Plateau, and Taraba states,” the UK added.