About 103 oil workers are leaving Nigeria this Thursday afternoon for Paris, as part of the dry run simulation flight for the proposed resumption of international flights on 29 August.
The passengers had arrived the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, early in the morning for their pre-boarding formalities, in line with the Covid-19 protocols and procedures laid down by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.
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Head Operations of the chartered flight, Sunday Adelowo, said the flight will take off at 2 pm. He added that some Nigerians who are stranded in Paris will return on board the flight.
Editor: Tunde Orebiyi