BREAKING: COVID-19: FG to evacuate Nigerians abroad
April 3, 2020
COVID-19: FG gives guidelines for evacuation of Nigerian nationals
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO Nigerians in Diaspora Commission
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Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has directed all its missions abroad to compile lists of willing nationals who wanted to come back home, it was learnt.

Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed that this was a sequel to requests by Nigerians stranded abroad in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.



She, however, said that the MFA had instructed that “the financial implications will be borne by the prospective evacuees, who will be compulsorily quarantined when they returned”.

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According to a statement on Friday by the Head, Media and Public Relations Unit, NIDCOM, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, interested citizens should inform the embassy in their country of residence about their intention to return to Nigeria.

It said, “The interested Nigerians are advised to inform the missions in the various countries they are in, which will then collate and coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“To this end, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa urged Nigerians stranded abroad willing to return home to key into this Federal Government gesture by providing information to the mission in their respective host countries.”



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Nice gesture though

Good

Will they want to Come back?

They went there for greener pastures, let them enjoy the good the bad and ugly of the so called developed countries instead coming back with more of this virus!!

When Foreigners are evacuating their citizens from Nigeria . Which Nigerians abroad will want to go through the stress of isolation when they are not infected with the virus?

Let Fg use the money for more relief materials

sarrki:


Nice gesture though

Sarrki, no hiding place for you

We are in this shit together

How many dem evacuate from south Africa,when nigerians were slaughtered daily...we die dia..make dem no worry.we are ok.