About 300 Nigerians stranded in the United Kingdom will be brought home in a charter flight today, Friday.
The evacuees will on arrival in Abuja undergo the mandatory 14-day supervised quarantine and tests for COVID-19. They are part of 4,000 Nigerians being evacuated from foreign countries.
The first batch of returnees from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, landed in Lagos on Wednesday.
Speaking during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said the returnees would be isolated in hotels in the Federal Capital Territory.
