A number of Nigerians who were stranded in the United Kingdom following the COVID-19 lockdown and requested to be repatriated home, have arrived in Nigeria.
The chartered flight that evacuated them, arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos at about 1.40pm on Friday afternoon, May 8. The returnees will be airlifted to Abuja where will undergo a mandatory 14-day supervised quarantine.
On Wednesday, 256 Nigerians stranded in the United Arab Emirates were evacuated back home and are currently being quarantined in an isolation center in Lagos.
