Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has directed all its missions abroad to compile lists of willing nationals who want to come back home, it emerged on Friday evening.
Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed that this was due to requests by Nigerians stranded abroad in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
She, however, said that the MFA had instructed that “the financial implications will be borne by the prospective evacuees, who will be compulsorily quarantined when they return”.
According to a statement on Friday by the Head of Media and Public Relations Unit, NIDCOM, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, interested citizens should inform the embassy in their country of residence about their intention to return to Nigeria.
Balogun stated that the interested Nigerians are advised to inform the missions in the various countries they are in, which will then collate and coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The NIDCOM public relations head stressed that;
To this end, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa urged Nigerians stranded abroad willing to return home to key into this Federal Government gesture by providing information to the mission in their respective host countries.
