The Second batch of 253 Nigerian evacuees from the United Kingdom arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos at 1.45pm on Friday.
They were flown into the country on a British Airways flight BA9155.
They were airlifted in a Boeing 747 aircraft with registration Number G-CIVO.
The returnees disembarked from the aircraft after over 30 minutes through a motorised gangway rather than the usual avio-bridge.
The evacuees, after the usual temperature screening by officials of the Port Health services, were led into luxurious buses which took them to the isolation centers already prepared for them.
It was, however, learnt that some of them would be airlifted to Abuja on an Air Peace flight where they would be quarantined.
Officials of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), the Lagos State government and other officials of the Federal Government were on ground to receive the evacuees.
The same aircraft, which brought in the Nigerian evacuees, also conveyed 215 British nationals from the airport.
British government has been evacuating their citizens stranded in Nigeria in the wake of the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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