The Federal Government has announced that it is presently probing the reports of about 264 Nigerian passengers’ visas being cancelled upon their arrival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia en route from Nigeria.
The Air Peace flight allegedly took off from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos via the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano on Sunday night, November 12 and landed at King Abdul-Aziz International Airport, Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement made available to Channels Television on Tuesday, November 14 had said it was “looking into the matter to see if any consular or aviation rules had been broken.”
The statement was signed by Alkasim Abdulkadir, the Special Adviser on Media and Yusuf Tuggar, the Communications Strategy to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
According to Abdulkadir, the ministry would make sure that such actions that affect the welfare of Nigerian citizens were mitigated in the future, in line with what was tagged as the Four Ds strategy of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
