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The Federal Government has evacuated another 289 Nigerians stranded in the United States due to non availability of flights, occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic.
An Ethiopian Airlines plane conveying the evacuees took off from New Jersey on Tuesday night, and is expected to land in Abuja on Wednesday afternoon.
This is the fourth evacuation flight, bringing the total number of stranded Nigerians so far repatriated by the Federal Government from the US to 1,095.
Two families of seven were dropped from this flight, according to the Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Mr Benaoyagha Okoyen.
Okoyen said that they were denied boarding for failing to present COVID-19 test result, which is a key requirement for the flight.
The evacuees were stranded after Nigeria shut its airspace in March to check the spread of the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government has approved two more evacuation flights, scheduled to depart from Texas and New Jersey on July 31 and August 7 respectively.