Sixty-seven Nigerians resident in Côte d’Ivoire, whose arrival have been long anticipated, on Wednesday arrived at Seme Border Post on a bus registered in Osun State.
Most of the passengers on the bus were women and children.
Officials from Lagos State Ministry of Health arrived Seme border post around 4 pm on Wednesday in three Toyota Coaster buses and took the returnees to isolation centres in Badagry for tests and quarantine.
It was gathered that the Nigerians, who left Côte d’Ivoire on Sunday, were delayed on their way because of the border closures in Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An official of Nigeria Immigration Service in Seme who did not want his name mentioned, told newsmen that they had earlier informed the Lagos State Government of their arrival.
The official said most of the returnees were from Ejigbo in Osun but decided to return to Nigeria when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in the country.
Cote d’Ivoire has 345 cases of the coronavirus.
Seventeen out of 127 Nigerians who returned to Osun from the francophone country last week tested positive.
