Evacuation

247 Nigerians stranded in Thailand and Malaysia due to the coronavirus pandemic have been evacuated. Announcing their arrival via its Twitter handle on Sunday morning, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) said the repatriation…

Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has announced the arrival of 238 Nigerians evacuated from Turkey on Sunday. This was disclosed via a statement on the official Twitter handle of NiDCOM. According to the commission, the…

Federal Government has evacuated eighty six stranded Nigerians, who arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, via Air Sudan on Friday. The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa,…

Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has announced that 315 stranded nationals have been evacuated from the United Kingdom. NiDCOM made this known via its Twitter handle on Sunday, stating that evacuees would arrive in Nigeria…

Federal Government has announced that it has concluded arrangements to evacuate more Nigerians from the U.S. The evacuation which is slated for July 3, will be the second special flight for Nigerian citizens stranded in the U.S. due to…

Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has announced that 269 Nigerians stranded in India due to the coronavirus pandemic have returned to the country. NIDCOM made this known in a statement on its official Twitter page, stressing…

Federal Government has evacuated 286 Nigerians stranded in China due to the COVID-19 lockdown. The evacuees arrived the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, on Saturday. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), while…

China has evacuated 325 of its citizens from Nigeria via an Air Peace flight headed for Shanghai. The plane was scheduled to depart at 10:05 pm on Thursday. It is however unconfirmed whether Chinese medics who came into the…

Federal Government has suspended further evacuation of Nigerians stranded abroad because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, who announced this during COVID-19 presidential task force briefing on…

United Kingdom has announced that three more special flights will be available evacuate British citizens from Nigeria. In a statement issued on Saturday, Catriona Laing, the British high commissioner to Nigeria, said the scheduled…

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has revealed that a Nigerian returnee who recently died in an isolation facility in the state, was not coronavirus positive. This update comes two days after the Commissioner…

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has revealed that various isolation centres in Lagos and Abuja have been saturated by 600 evacuees from different countries The minister who disclosed this on Monday at the Presidential…

Over 253 British nationals have departed Nigeria for the United Kingdom on Friday on a special return chartered flight organised by both governments, it emerged. The plane had earlier brought back 200 Nigerian nationals from the UK…