March 11, 2022

…Evacuees get $100 each to cover their transportation

The Federal government has evacuated One hundred and twenty-three (123) more Nigerians fleeing Ukraine.

The evacuees who were brought back from Warsaw in Poland returned aboard an Air Peace plane with registration number 9HSLF which arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at about 1:20am on Friday.

Also at the airport to receive them were officials of the Nigeria Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM); the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), and the Federal Ministry of Health, among others.

The evacuees comprise 122 adults and one infant, a further breakdown of the returnees shows that 75 of them are males and the remaining 48 others are females.

They were given the sum of $100 each to cover their transportation fare from the airport to their destinations in various parts of the country.