Five hundred and twenty-five Nigerians stranded by the coronavirus lockdown in the United States of America and Cyprus have been repatriated home by the federal government.
Three hundred and fifteen of them were airlifted to Abuja by the Ethiopian Airline while the remaining 210 came aboard a Turkish Airline.
Earlier, the Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Twitter that the evacuees from the US departed Newark Airport, New Jersey at 23:27hrs on Friday
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