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Emirates to Resume Nigerian Routes as FG Lifts Ban UAE drops Rapid Antigen Test requirement Chinedu Eze in Lagos and Kasim Sumaina in Abuja The United Arab Emirates, in its latest Coronavirus protocol released yesterday, dropped the Rapid Antigen Test (RDT) for

COVID-19 as prerequisite for travelling to the Middle East country for Nigerians and some other countries. The Nigerian government also responded swiftly by lifting the ban it previously placed

on UAE's Emirates Airline's flights into Nigeria. Emirates stopped flights to Nigeria in February this year, when its operation was put on-hold by the federal government following its

demand for Nigerian travellers to take the RDT four hours before their flight, as stipulated in the COVID-19 protocols of the UAE. When Emirates began its demand for the test, Minister of

Aviation, Hadi Sirika, described the RDT requirement as “discriminatory profiling” of Nigerian travellers. A statement seen by THISDAY and dated November 26, 2021, issued by the Aviation

Business Management TeamDubai Airports, indicated that RDT would no longer be required for all flights effective from Saturday November Continued on page 5

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11 Killed, 30 Houses Burnt in Fresh Plateau Terror Attacks Kidnappers demand N99m ransom for 66 abducted Kaduna Baptist Church members

Seriki Adinoyi in Jos and John Shiklam in Kaduna No fewer than 11 persons,

including children, were killed yesterday and 30 houses burnt when terrorists attacked Te'egbe community in Bassa Local

Government Area of Plateau State. In a swift reaction, Governor Simon Lalong expressed anger

over the attack, describing it as “another sad incident” aimed at destabilising the state. On the same day, it emerged

that the abductors of 66 members of Baptist Church, Kakau Daji, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, finally contacted

families of the victims after 27 days, with a demand for N99 Continued on page 5

Finally, Court Declares Bandits Terrorists, FG to Gazette Ruling Malami: Judgement will embolden Nigerian government to crush bandits Alex Enumah in Abuja A Federal High Court in Abuja under trial Justice Taiwo Taiwo has ruled that activities of bandits, as well as other similar groups, by whatever names they are called, in any part of the country, amounted to acts of terrorism and subsequently declared them terrorists. Justice Taiwo further held that the federal government must publish the order in the official Gazette and two national dailies in the country. Reacting to the ruling, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami said it would now embolden the federal government to go all out to crush all forms of banditry in the country. The order declaring bandits terrorists was sequel to an application filed on behalf of the federal government by the Director of Public Prosecution, Federal Ministry of Justice, Mohammed Abubakar, regarding the activities of Yan Bindiga, Yan Ta’adda and

other groups of bandits in the country. In the exparte application, the federal government had prayed the court to outlaw the Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda groups, as well as other terrorist groups in the country. The request, according to the federal government in a supporting affidavit, was to checkmate the activities of the group, which the government claimed were responsible for killings, abductions, rapes, kidnappings, and other criminal acts in the North-east, Northcentral, and other parts of the country. The federal government blamed the groups for “banditry, incessant kidnappings for ransom, kidnapping for marriage, mass abductions of school children and other citizens, cattle rustling, enslavement, imprisonment, severe deprivation of physical liberty, torture, rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced Continued on page 5

VALEDICTORY VISIT… The ED/CEO, Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Segun Awolowo (l), with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, when Awolowo paid a valedictory visit to the vice president at the State House, Abuja…yesterday

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