Ghana has refuted claims of issuing a travel advisory to its citizens to keep away from Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration’s name and emblem are displayed on a notification that has been going around since Wednesday night.
Citing “the direction by local authorities to hotels operating in residential structures to shut down,” it claimed that Nigeria asked several hotels to close.
A high risk of terrorism, criminal activity, inter-communal violence, armed attacks, and kidnappings, according to the ministry.
The government disputed the claims in a tweet sent out early on Thursday.
The purported warning followed similar advisories by the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Germany, and others, since October.
The Nigerian military had managed to limit insurgents to northeastern Nigeria but terror gangs managed to infiltrate the North-West and North-Central in recent years.
Their incursion, largely through Niger and Kogi States, exposed the FCT where terrorists launched attacks at different times this year.
On July 5, the Medium Security Correctional Centre in Kuje was breached hours after President Muhammadu Buhari’s advance team was attacked en route to Katsina.
On July 24, a contingent of the Presidential Guards Brigade was ambushed along the Kubwa-Bwari road. Eight personnel and more than 10 insurgents died.
The military intervention prevented the assault of the neighbouring Veritas University and the Nigerian Law School, both in Bwari.
The attack happened at the same time that the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) issued a threat notice for Abuja, Katsina, Kaduna, Kogi, Lagos, and Zamfara.
Boko Haram and the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), according to a memo from the Deputy Commandant General (DCG) of Operations, D. D. Mungadi, have already mobilized fighters and weaponry.
