About 200 Nigerians stranded in Canada will be airlifted to Abuja by indigenous carrier on Thursday.
The Nigerian High Commission in Canada says the aircraft would pick up the prospective passengers from 2 airports located in Toronto and Alberta.
The flight schedule shows that the aircraft would pick the first set from the Pearson International Airport, Toronto. From there, it will fly to the Calgary International Airport, Alberta, a distance of 2,915 kilometres to airlift the second set of returnees.
The aircraft will later depart Alberta for the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, where the evacuees would be moved into isolation for 14 days.
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It was learnt that the indigenous airline, Air Peace had dedicated its Boeing 777 wide-bodied aircraft to airlift the returnees. It noted that it could be the only special evacuation flight for Nigerian nationals stranded in Canada during the Coronavirus pandemic.
It would be recalled that the Federal Government had last Wednesday commenced evacuation of Nigerians stranded abroad in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The first batch of 265 Nigerians returned from the United Arab Emirates aboard Emirates Airline while on Friday, 253 were brought back from the United Kingdom by British Airways, followed by 160 from the United States on Sunday by Ethiopian Airways.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
