Two hundred and ninety-eight Nigerians have been evacuated from Egypt and South Africa, the federal government announced Thursday.
The Nation has learned that while 112 stranded Nigerians have been evacuated from Egypt, 186 Nigerians have arrived from South Africa.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the flight with Egyptian evacuees took off from Cairo at 4:15 a.m. on Thursday, while South African evacuees, transported via Air Peace, according to chancellor’s media assistant Sarah Sanda, departed O.R. Tambo International Airport around 4:30 p.m.
“South Africa Air Peace’s last evacuation flight take off at 4:30 p.m. from Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport in Lagos with 186 passengers. About 35 are for Abuja,” Sanda said.
More than 10,000 Nigerians have been stranded in countries since the global close in March caused by COVID-19.
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