UK Evacuates 304 More Britons from Nigeria
The United Kingdom yesterday evacuated another batch of its citizens from Nigeria through Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
The flight took off at about 4.45 p.m local time and the UK High Commission said the final batch of the airlift would take place on May 8. So far, the UK has evacuated a total of about 1,699 citizens from Nigeria since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the closure of airports. Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, explained that the aircraft that would airlift the last batch of UK citizens on May 8, would bring in about 300 Nigerians who wished to return home from that country.
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