256 evacuated Nigerians yesterday arrived in Lagos State from the United Arab Emirates via the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on an Em
256 evacuated Nigerians yesterday arrived in Lagos State from the United Arab Emirates via the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on an Emirates Airline about 07.40pm. Upon their arrival, the evacuees are expected to proceed into 14-day isolation.
The returnees had been scheduled to arrive at the airport at 3.00 p.m. but one of the passengers went into labour causing the plane to make a U-turn to the United Arab Emirates.
A press statement from NIDCOm read, “A Nigerian lady, Mrs Kafayat Amusan, one of the stranded Nigerians travellers, returning from Dubai, UAE, has been delivered of a baby boy on board Emirates airline departing to Lagos.”
The Chairman of NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, confirmed that all 256 tested negative for COVID-19 before boarding from Dubai.
Other Nigerians are expected to be evacuated within the next few days as over 4,000 Nigerians are waiting to be evacuated across the world back home.
