FG Retaliates, Bars Flights From EU

In a counter-move, the Federal Government has barred flights from countries that have closed their airspace to Nigeria, with countries in the EU being a focal point.

The Federal Government has said that flights from countries in the EU will not be allowed into the country, following the exclusion of Nigeria from the list of countries allowed to fly into Europe.

This development was disclosed by the Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19.

He said, “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.

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“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.”