International flights resumed at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, on Monday, when an Airbus A350 aircraft operated by Ethiopian Airlines taxied to a halt at the airport terminal.
The flight, which took off from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport with 180 passengers onboard, landed at the NAIA at exactly 2pm and was received to a water cannon reception.
This is coming more than five months after the closure of the Nigerian airspace to scheduled international flights due to lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic.
Officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Port Health Services, amongst others, were on ground to receive the passengers and ensure protocols put in place by the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 were strictly obeyed.
Ethiopian Airlines media consultant in Nigeria, Ikechi Uko, confirmed the development in a telephone chat.
According to him, the flight later departed for Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital city, with 257 passengers onboard.
