A total of 292 Nigerians stranded in the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia arrived in Abuja on Tuesday evening.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed the arrival on Twitter on Wednesday.
Onyeama also said the majority of the returnees were nursing mothers and children, disclosing that they were all comfortably settled in hotels in fulfilment of the 14-day mandatory quarantine period.
‘We received 292 evacuees stranded in Saudi Arabia yesterday. The Saudi Government transported them to Abuja. A large number are nursing mothers and children and they are all comfortably settled in hotels under the mandatory 14 days quarantine,’ Onyeama indicated in the tweet.
This will be the fourth batch of Nigerians to be evacuated from foreign countries. 265 Nigerians were evacuated from the United Arab Emirates on May 6. On Friday May 8, 253 Nigerians were evacuated from the United Kingdom, and then on Sunday May 10, 160 Nigerians were evacuated from the US.
With this latest evacuation, 970 Nigerians have so far been evacuated from other countries due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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