VIDEO: First batch of Nigerian evacuees from Sudan arrives Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, late Wednesday night. Credit: Facebook | BBC News Pidgin
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the evacuees arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Wednesday night at about 11:35pm abaord a Nigerian Airforce plane and Air Peace Aircraft.
While recieving the evacuees at the Airport, the Director Migration, National Commission for Refugees, Migrant and Internally Displaced Displaced Persons, Mrs. Catherine Udida, said 94 evacuees were flown in by the Airforce plane C130, while Air Peace had 282 evacuees. The chairman Nigerians in Diaspora Commission , Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, in her reaction, said it was a huge relief to receive the returnees, bearing in mind what they went through in Sudan.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, the permanent secretary in the ministry, Dr Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, the Director General of NEMA, Mustapha Habib, security officials as well as some family members were at the General Aviation Termal of the airport to receive the returnees.
MEDICAL CONSULTANTS REVEALED NATURAL AND PERMANENT CURE TO DIABETES & HIGH BLOOD SUGAR WITHOUT SIDE EFFECTS... CLICK HEREThe Nigerians, according to sources were happy to be back home after the harrowing experience on their way to the Egyptian border as well as the difficulties and frustration they faced at the border.
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