The United Kingdom (UK) and United Arab Emirates (UAE) have on Tuesday lifted the restrictions they placed on travelers from Nigeria.
The UK had earlier placed Nigeria on its Red List over Omicron, the new variant of Covid-19 while UAE on Monday banned foreign airlines from carrying Nigerian passengers to the UAE over a diplomatic row between the government of both countries.
The United Kingdom on Tuesday removed Nigeria from the Red List after the federal government of Nigeria threatened to suspend UK airlines from carrying passengers to the country and to also put the UK on a Red List.
The UK government has now confirmed it is scrapping the Red List for international travel from 4am on Wednesday, December 15, while tests will remain.
UAE also reversed the ban it earlier placed on foreign airlines from accepting passengers from Nigeria which took effect on Monday 13, December.
Meanwhile, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority has now offered Nigeria’s Air Peace airline seven slots to operate from Dubai airport (DXB).
In a letter confirmed to have emanated from the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, signed by the Director-General, Mohammed Ahil, and addressed to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, with reference number DCAA/ASA/N-3/014, dated December 13, 2021, the regulator said it has received information from DXB that there are now available slots at terminal one and the airline has till Thursday, December 16 to respond.
There is now high hope that a lasting solution has finally come to the nine-month-old diplomatic row between Nigeria and the UAE governments.
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