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Crisis In Ukraine/Russia - Nigerian Government To Airlift Nigerians, Evacuation Begins Wednesday

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, in an interview on Channels Television’s programme, ‘Politics Today,' indicated that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved funds for the airlines to evacuate Nigerians.

The minister said, “I have been in touch with the ambassador. There are about 150 of them who are looking to cross into Russia and we have asked the ambassador in Russia to try and get a permit for them to transit to Russia and hopefully, by Wednesday we will start deploying planes to start bringing the Nigerians."

"There were about 8,000 Nigerians in Ukraine, 5,000 of whom were students. He said.

He also made mentioned that the Federal Government had tipped Air Peace and Air Max to airlift the Nigerians who wanted to be evacuated.

Earlier on he highlighted how the crisis was being tackled to the members of the Federal House of Representatives. He stated this while giving a brief of the evacuation efforts thus far;

"We made Romania the hub and over a thousand Nigerians have crossed there. Poland has about 250, Budapest in Hungary has a similar number, Slovakia is rising rapidly. It is also around 200. There are some Nigerians in a place called Sumy close to the Russian border." He said.

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  1. Chioma O.1 March 2022 at 06:27

    Should this be a welcome development?? Naija always lagging behind though

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  2. Hermosa5 March 2022 at 02:41

    Naija will always carry last In this kind of task 😂😂

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