The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed the arrival of two hundred and ninety-two Nigerians evacuated from Saudi Arabia in the federal capital territory (FCT).
This was announced in a tweet on Wednesday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama.
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He said the evacuees arrived in the nation’s capital on Tuesday.
Onyeama said the Saudi Arabia government facilitated their transportation to Abuja, and that a large number of the evacuees are nursing mothers and children.
According to him, the evacuees have already begun their 14-day quarantine in some undisclosed hotels.
See tweet below:
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. #COVID19 #PTFCOVID19 @NigeriaGov
— Geoffrey Onyeama (@GeoffreyOnyeama) May 20, 2020