As part of its evacuation exercise of Nigerians in foreign lands who are anxious to return to the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the arrival of 160 Nigerians from the United States.
The returnees arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Sunday aboard an Ethiopian airline Boeing 787, with flight number ET8509.
Before the Sunday arrival of the returnees from New Jersey, the United States, the Foreign Affairs Ministry had last week successfully evacuated Nigerians from the United Arab Emirate and the United Kingdom.
Sunday flight from the US has increased the batches of returnees from foreign lands to three.
Kimiebi Ebienfa, of the Crises Monitoring and Public Communications Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement revealed details of the returnees from the United States.
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Onboard the Ethiopian airline which departed New Jersey on Saturday and arrived Abuja on Sunday were 92 males, 60 females, including eight infants.
The statement further disclosed that those present at the Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, United States, to witness the departure of the flight were the Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Tijjani Muhammad-Bande; the Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations, Ambassador Samson Itegboje, the Consul General, Consulate General of Nigeria, New York, Mr Benaoyagha Okoyen, amongst others.
The Consulate General of Nigeria in New York in a statement on Saturday has revealed that all the 160 “returnees shall be transported by the Federal Government from the Airport to the designated quarantine centres for the compulsory fourteen days period.”
“During this period, all returnees will be tested for COVID-19 and will also be re-tested at the end of the quarantine period. Only those that test negative will be allowed to retrieve their passports from the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), while positive cases will be transferred to designated Isolation Centers for treatment.”
The Consulate General restated its position that the returnees would be responsible for planning their own travel arrangements from Abuja to their respective destinations within Nigeria after the 14 days mandatory quarantine period.
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