Ayodele Olalere
Nigerians abroad willing to come back to the country in the wake of the spread of Covid-19 are to pay for their flights back home.
While giving guidelines on the plans by Federal government to evacuate willing Nigerians abroad, In a statement by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, headed by Hon. Abike-Dabiri Erewa, and signed by Abdur-Rahman Balogun, Head, Media and Public Relations Unit of the commission, dated APRIL 3, 2020, it stated that the government would not be responsible for the financial implication of bringing such stranded Nigerians back home.
” Sequel to requests by Nigerians stranded abroad in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has directed all its missions abroad to compile lists of willing nationals who wanted to come back home.
Interested Nigerians are advised to inform the missions in the various countries they are in, who will then collate and coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” the statement stated.
It added: ” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has instructed that the financial implications will be borne by the prospective evacuees, who will be compulsorily quarantined when they return. To this end, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa urged Nigerians stranded abroad willing to return home to key into this Federal Government gesture by providing their information to the mission in their respective host countries.
While embassies in several countries are also on lockdown, those interested could also go online and fill a form provided on the commission’s website: https://nidcom.gov.ng/form101/
They can also email oninfo@nidcom.gov.ng admin@nidcom.gov.ng
media@nidcom.gov.ng, legal@nidcom.gov.ng, and on Twitter handle @nidcom_gov
