Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja
SIXTY-nine evacuees from Lebanon will arrive Nigeria today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama has said.
Their evacuation is at the expense of the Lebanese authorities.
Onyeama disclosed this in his verified Twitter handle. He said 69 evacuees will be arriving the country.
It was gathered that they will be coming in on a local flight, which will first land in Lagos, before conveying them to Abuja for the 24 days compulsory isolation and quarantine in line with latest foreign trip protocol aimed at containing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic which has ravaged the entire world, leading to global lockdown.
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Onyeama stated in his tweet “With the financial and logistic support of the Lebanese Government and Lebanese community in Nigeria, 50 trafficked Nigerian girls and 19 stranded Nigerians were successfully evacuated from Lebanon and arrived Nigeria today.”
In the last two weeks the country has successfully evacuated close to 1,000 of its citizens from U.K, U.S, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirate. Though there still about 3,000 waiting to be evacuated from various countries across the globe.
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