The federal government says it
will reciprocate travel restrictions by countries that have not opened their
airspace to Nigeria.
Speaking on Thursday at the
briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19, Hadi Sirika, the minister
of aviation said countries in the European Union will be affected.
Sirika was represented at the
briefing by Musa Nuhu, director-general of the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Authority (NCAA).
“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,” he said.
“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.”
The minister said only a few
international flights will be allowed at the onset of international flight
resumption as test runs of the protocols put in place at the airport to ensure
safe operations.
He also said the number of
inbound international passengers will be limited to 1,280.
TheCable had earlier reported
that the European Union Commission excluded Nigeria from the list of countries
whose nationals will be allowed in the region upon flight resumption on July 1.
Nigeria will reopen its airspace
to international flights on August 29. However, flights will be restricted to
the Lagos and Abuja airports.
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