Dubai’s Emirates airline will resume flight schedules to Nigeria, it said on Thursday, ending a close to two-year halt to flights.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) stopped issuing visas to Nigerians in 2022 after Emirates suspended flights between the nations because of an inability to repatriate funds from the country.
“We are excited to resume our services to Nigeria. We thank the Nigerian government for their partnership and support in re-establishing this route, and we look forward to welcoming passengers back on board,” Adnan Kazim, the airline’s deputy president and chief commercial officer, said in a statement.
It said the resumption would be from October 1, according to a Reuters report.
The Lagos-Dubai service has been popular with Nigerian customers in the past, and Emirates said it hopes to reconnect travellers to Dubai and onwards to more than 140 destinations with its resumption of services.
The development was after President Bola Tinubu and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met last September in Abu Dhabi, and discussed the lifting of the visa ban and new investments into Africa’s most populous country.
The resumption of schedules also includes cargo flights, the statement said.
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