Nigeria, March 26 -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has listed conditions for it to resume its air operations to and from Nigeria.

The details are contained in a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria dated March 24, 2021.

The Nigerian government temporarily banned Emirates Airlines from operating in the country over its continuous refusal to fly passengers without a pre-boarding Rapid Diagnostic Test (RTD).

The ban took effect from midnight on March 17.

Emirate and KLM had in the past few weeks flown passengers into Nigeria but refused to fly passengers out owing to new guidelines introduced as part of measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

The UAE government, through its embassy in Abuja, said it has decid...