The federal government of Nigeria has barred eight airlines from entering the country as it resumed international flights operations.

Hadi Sirika, the country’s Minister for Aviation, in a release said that Nigeria will bar entry to nationals and airlines of countries that do not allow Nigerians to enter their territories amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The airlines are: Air France, KLM Royal Dutch, Lufthansa, Etihad Airways, RwandAir, Air Namibia, Royal Air Maroc and TAAG Angola.

According to him, some of the airlines were denied permission to enter because Nigerians with tourist visas have been banned from entering those countries. The ones that fell under this category were: Air France, KLM Royal Dutch, Lufthansa and Etihad Airways.

The other airlines, with the exception of RwandAir, were barred because their nations had not yet resumed international flights.

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