Emirates Airline to Start Operations in Nigeria from 1 October

The airline said it will operate a daily service between Lagos and Dubai, offering customers more choice and connectivity from Nigeria’s largest city to and through Dubai. Festus Keyamo, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, announced that Emirates Airlines plans to restart flights to Nigeria.

This decision follows a meeting with Salem Saeed Al-Shamsi, the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Nigeria, held at the UAE Embassy in Abuja.

Keyamo revealed on his X account on Wednesday, May 15, that Emirates Airlines has set a specific date for its return to Nigeria and assured that the airline will make an official announcement within the next few days.

He wrote, “Yesterday, I paid a working visit to the Ambassador of the UAE to Nigeria, His Excellency, Salem Saeed Al-Shamsia at the UAE Embassy in Abuja. “He handed me a correspondence from the Emirates Airline indicating a definite date of their resumption of flights to Nigeria. That date will be formally announced by Emirates Airlines in a matter of days.”