The Federal Government has said Nigerians abroad repatriated into the country amid the pandemic prefer to arrive in Lagos State.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who made this disclosure on Thursday evening during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, said the first batch of 265 returnees that arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Wednesday night have been quarantined in two hotels.
“We are hoping to have another flight tomorrow coming from the UK. This flight will be going to Abuja but they will be landing in Lagos first, that’s the plan and they will be ferried to Abuja.
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