This is the final repatriation flight planned by the Nigerian Government for stranded citizens in the U.S due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
Over 200 Nigerian
citizens left New Jersey, United States, on Thursday night in the ninth
evacuation flight from America to join friends and families back home.
This is the final
repatriation flight planned by the Nigerian Government for stranded citizens in
the U.S due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
It came barely 24
hours after the eighth flight in which 94 Nigerians were evacuated from
Houston, Texas.
Six of all nine
flights operated by Ethiopian Airlines originated from the Newark Liberty
International Airport, New Jersey, and were coordinated by the Consulate
General of Nigeria in New York.
Speaking with NAN on
Thursday night, the Consul-General of Nigeria in New York, Mr Benaoyagha
Okoyen, expressed happiness over the success of the exercise, acknowledging the
contributions of the Nigerian community, the Association of Nigerian Physicians
in the Americas, and the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Americas.
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