The government of the United Kingdom has warned its citizens against travelling to some states in Nigeria ahead of planned mass demonstrations taking place August 5, 2019.

In an advisory on its website, it warned citizens to "monitor local media" and "avoid large gatherings" following calls for a nationwide #RevolutionNow march.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advised it's citizens not to travel to Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe states in northern Nigeria as well as Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River States in southern Nigeria.

Other states include Bauchi, Zamfara, Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi and Abia states.

The UK government said the reason for the warning was because recent protests in Nigeria usually turned violent.

"Since January 2018, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has protested regularly in central Abuja and other cities. These protests, particularly in Abuja, have the potential to turn violent. On 22 July 2019, violent protests in Abuja resulted in a number of deaths, including a police officer and a journalist.

"Tensions continue to be high. Protests are also likely to continue in Lagos, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Zaria. You should monitor local media, avoid any demonstrations or large gatherings and follow any instructions from police and security forces."

Lol

they shld just say citizens should avoid the 36 states and fct

They value their citizens' life.... Reverse is the case in a certain kontiri.

How I wish the proponents of the evil amalgamation of 1914 were alive to see the harm they did to their posterity.

The UK and the UN are complicit in the plague bedevilling Nigeria. Even in the heat of all these cries, all they care is to issue travel warning to their citizens. They care not what happened to their colony(because I doubt if we are truly independent as we are heavily dependent on foreign aids to the extent we have to borrow fighter jet from Pakistan).

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How I wish the proponents of the evil amalgamation of 1914 were alive to see the harm they did to their posterity.

The UK and the UN are complicit in the plague bedevilling Nigeria. Even in the heat of all these cries, all they care is to issue travel warning to their citizens. They care not what happened to their colony(because I doubt if we are truly independent as we are heavily dependent on foreign aids to the extent we have to borrow fighter jet from Pakistan).

If I must comment here, the bedeviling of ur leaders, their greediness because of small education they had from the same colonial masters, the little exposure given to them, made them think they were ready to govern themselves... they wanted independent, and this is it!

It is never the white men fault. Nigerian leaders still needed to be taught! Greedy fools!

Just look up and see the state in included and excluded, the SW region was fully excluded despite the fact that the organisers of the protest are planing to test run it in lagos.

Even we in Nigeria want to leave oo