The Federal government of Nigeria has announced that it plans to ban flights from European nations just as they have banned flights from Nigeria into their country.
In an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 in its region, the European Union in June released a statement listing countries that are banned from flying into any of the countries in the region.
At the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 on Thursday, August 20, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced that the Federal government will be reciprocating the EU’s decision.
According to him, Airlines from the European Union would not be allowed to fly into Nigeria once the international flights resume operations in Nigeria on Saturday, August 29.
The minister, who was represented by the Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Capt. Musa Nuhu argued that the decision was taken in the interest of Nigerians.
“On the list of countries (that are banned), we are working on the comprehensive list, but the main one that came up is when the EU opened their borders effective 1st July, Nigeria was among the list of 54 countries that were not allowed to enter the EU.
To my understanding, as the situation changes, they are going to look at the list and change it. But so far, we don’t have any contrary information to that first one that Nigeria is banned from going to the EU. So, as we open our airspace, we are going to apply the issue of reciprocity to those (EU) countries,” he said
Recall that the Minister had announced days back that International flights will resume operations on Saturday, August 29, with inbound international passengers being limited to 1,280.
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