The 292 Saudi Arabia evacuees have been released after 15 days in isolation in Abuja.
They were discharged on Wednesday after testing negative for COVID-19.
This brings to 677 the number of evacuees who have successfully completed their isolation on returning to the country.
Our correspondent gathered that the individuals have left Abuja to reunite with their families in Lagos and Ibadan, Oyo State.
A senior official said the Federal Government provided buses that conveyed them to their bases, adding that the returnees could not be transported by air on account of the ban on air travel.
He explained that the evacuees were arranged in five per vehicle in line with the travel protocol put in place by the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 pandemic.
The Saudi Arabia batch is the fourth batch to have arrived in the country, The PUNCH reports. Three evacuees tested positive while one died.
No fewer than 1,257 Nigerians have been repatriated home out of over 4,000 stranded abroad on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.
