About 200 Nigerians are currently stranded at Stansted Airport, London, UK, and protesting after they were forced to disembark from a Nigeria-bound Titan Airline aircraft.

Vanguard reports that one of the stranded passengers said that the flight was billed to take off 7 a.m., August 15, but was rescheduled for 10 a.m., then 1 pm.
The passenger explained further that “the minimum amount paid by a passenger was N411,000″.

“The pilot told us that they (the Nigerian government) refused him a landing permit, which was granted before now.

“We were forced to pay COVID-19 test in Nigeria after undergoing one test here in the United Kingdom. All of us were forced to pay N50,400 to the hospital for tests when we get to Nigeria,” he said.

The passenger also said that the requirements for boarding the aircraft include “Nigerian passport, COVID-19 test results, payment for another COVID-19 test in Nigeria”.

“The police chased us out of the aircraft without making another arrangement for us,” one of the Nigerians at the London airport added.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.

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