The federal government has evacuated 269 Nigerians stranded in India as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM)who announced the arrival through it’s Twitter handle said the new set of returnees arrived in the country in the early hours of Saturday.
According to the agency, 103 of the evacuees arrived in Lagos and 166 others landed in Abuja at about 2am, after a few hours of delay.
The NIDCOM stated that all the evacuees tested negative before boarding the plane and would be re-tested within 72 hours at a designated testing centre of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
They were brought back to Nigeria from India aboard an Air Peace plane which first landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja before proceeding to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
