Barring any change in an early plan, many German nationals are waiting at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport to be evacuated to Germany by the country’s national carrier, Lufthansa.
This just as an Air France flight is being expected today to evacuate the second batch of the. French nationals residing in the country out of the Lagos airport under special flight granted as a result of the coronavirus spreading across nations.
A similar evacuation of American citizens out of the country through Lagos airport earlier for today has however been shifted till tomorrow, Friday and Saturday.
According to information gathered, the outbound German citizens have completed all the airport immigration profiling and relevant facilitation for the coronavirus and awaiting the arrival of the special flight.
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The flight which is expected to land anytime from now was approved by Nigeria’s ministry of aviation at the request of the German government.
An Air France had last week evacuated 260 French nationals out of Lagos and Abuja airport after been granted approval by Nigeria to operate three special flights to evacuate the citizens. The last. Exercise is coming up on April 9th, 2020.
Similarly, Nigeria’s Air Peace had helped evacuated 265 nationals of Israel out of Nigeria.
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