After many hours of waiting, another set of 315 Nigerians have arrived the country through the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport aboard Air Peace airline.
The Boeing 737-200 plane deployed to airlift them back touched down at the Lagos airport by 7.21 p.m.
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The latest number of returnees made it 502 Nigerians so far flown back from South Africa as a result of the ongoing xenophobic attacks in the country.
Drama was, however, unfolded when journalists were barred from covering the latest arrival of Nigerian returnees as scores of journalists who had thronged the hajj/cargo axis of the airport got disappointed.