Delta Airlines cancels flight slated to come in and go out of Nigeria

Delta Airlines cancels two flights which were earlier scheduled to come in and go out of Nigeria. 
 
Flight 248 from Atlanta, United States, to Lagos, Nigeria, and Flight 249 from Lagos to Atlanta scheduled for Tuesday night (today) and also Wednesday evening respectively were cancelled following the tensed atmosphere in the South-West state. 
 
This is coming after Delta Airlines Flight 54 from Atlanta to Lagos was forced to return to America after first terminating its journey in Dakar, Senegal, with the entire crew and passengers on board.