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A British Airways’ B747 plane with 253 Nigerians landed at the Murtala Muhammed International as part of emergency evacuation of Nigerians from the United Kingdom. The airplane landed at exactly 1.44 pm.
An Emirates flight had on Wednesday brought back 256 Nigerians from the United Arab Emirates in what was the first batch of Nigerians that are being returned to their country.
The passengers were kept inside the aircraft for more than thirty minutes after the plane came to a stop. They disembarked through a motorized gangway rather than exiting the aircraft through an avio bridge.
They gradually disembarked and filed in a long queue for officials of Port Health who checked their temperature in a rather frustrating manner.
A journalist who was one of the evacuees told Woleshadarenews via telephone Immediately he arrived lamented the excruciating situation they were made to undergo as they were seen in a long stretch of queue.
Woleshadarenews gathered that many of them were getting set to be transferred into a waiting Air Peace B777-300 aircraft.
