Presidency: Nigeria won’t react to speculations on US Travel Ban, until…

Reports emerged on Tuesday indicating that President Donald Trump’s administration has plans to add seven countries across the world, including Nigeria, to the country’s travel ban list.
The report, which was credited to some American media, identified the countries to be affected in the new ban to include Tanzania, Sudan, Eritrea and Nigeria from Africa; Kyrgyzstan and Belarus from Eastern Europe and Myanmar from Asia.
However, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in a terse message on Wednesday evening, said Nigeria will not react to such diplomatic development based on just media report.
According to him, the government would take its time to watch how the said development unfolds, take a study and analysis of its expected reach and effect before giving an official reaction.
Mallam Garba said: “Yes we have read the news that the Trump administration is planning to add a host of African, Asian and Eastern European countries to its travel restrictions list as reported by the U.S. media.
“We are not going to react to speculations. We urge you to wait for us to see what unfolds under the new policy, its scope, its reach, the implications and its consequences before we react.”
Trump had during a recent media interview in Davos, Switzerland, hinted of adding some countries to the restriction list his administration put in place soon after he became president in 2016.
The move led to widespread protests in the US and a legal challenge, which the Supreme Court finally ruled in favour of the Trump administration