Minister of Foreign Affairs, says 200 Nigerians in the US want to come back to Nigeria due to Coronavirus

Minister of Foreign Affairs, says 200 Nigerians in the US want to come back to Nigeria due to Coronavirus

Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffery Onyeama has revealed that citizens of the country in the United States of America want to return home due to the deadly Coronavirus outbreak.

The United States is the highest risk country for the Coronavirus outbreak and Nigerians in will like to come back to the country.

The Minister revealed the decision of the foreign-based citizens in a daily Presidential Taskforce against COVID-19 press briefing.

The statement was posted on the official said, “So the response was not as a result of letters coming in from Nigerians abroad as has been mentioned in some media houses.

“At the time of request, we did not have all our isolation centres and all the other logistical arrangements in place. So for that reason, we kept it in abeyance while we were putting all those things in place and now, we have sufficient beds and so forth and protocol is now well established, and we now feel much stronger and in a better position to undertake this herculean task of trying to see how we can bring Nigerians outside the country back into the country.

“In that context, we’ve now started to get great numbers of Nigerians especially in the United States where almost 200 have now indicated and are willing to return. We are engaging with our Embassies in #China and the High Commission.”