The Federal Government has received another batch of 301 Nigerians fleeing the Russia-Ukraine war from Budapest, Hungary on Saturday, at about 8:45 pm in Abuja.
It was gathered that the returnees arrived through Azman Air and were received by top officials of Federal Government at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, led by the Director, Legal and Consular Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bolaji Akinremi.
According to the Ministry, most of the evacuees were students from Sumy, which was surrounded by Russian troops.
A corridor was created for them to leave the city after a negotiation between the Nigerian government and the Government of Ukraine as this made it the sixth batch in an evacuation exercise that started about a week ago.
No fewer than 123 Nigerians had earlier been repatriated back home on Friday from Poland as Nigeria continues to bring back its nationals from war-torn Ukraine.
The Head of Technology Transfer Innovative of Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), AbdurRahman Terab, said in addition to the $100 given to each returnee on Friday, NIDCOM in partnership with MTN gave each of them a free SIM loaded with N5000 airtime.
He explained that once the SIM is activated, the N5,000 airtime multiply to N19,500 worth of airtime and this is an additional kind gesture that was well received and appreciated by all the evacuees.
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