Nigeria’s foreign affairs ministry has announced that it expects to receive the first batch of evacuees from Ukraine on Thursday.
This was announced through a press statement by Gabriel Aduda, the ministry’s permanent secretary.
According to Mr Aduda, “the chartered flights (Air Peace, Max Air) will depart on Wednesday, March 2, to pick up Nigerian evacuees back home.”
He added that the Nigerian embassies in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia have received 650, 350, 940 and 150 persons respectively from Ukraine.
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