The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has directed all its missions abroad to compile lists of willing nationals who wanted to come back home.
Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed that this was a sequel to requests by Nigerians stranded abroad in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
She, however, said that the financial implications will be borne by the prospective evacuees, who will be compulsorily quarantined when they returned.
According to a statement on Friday by the Head, Media and Public Relations Unit, NIDCOM, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, interested citizens should inform the embassy in their country of residence about their intention to return to Nigeria.