THE Federal Government has ordered the closure of the country’s land and Sea borders on election days. The shutdown of the borders is to prevent foreign ‘mercenaries’ from coming to disrupt peaceful conduct of the elections. The Minister said: “I want to assure you that we are very conscious of our borders, particularly now and everything we can do to protect our borders during elections, we will do. “All road borders will be temporally closed particularly on the Election Day, February 16 until the elections of that day are over. The representative of the Nigeria Immigration Service at the event, ACG Antonia Opara, buttressed what the Minister said, stressing during elections the Nigeria borders are always shut.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 09, 2019 06:11 UTC