The First set of Nigerian evacuees from Sudan have arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
The returnees touched down onboard a Nigeria Air Force plane and Air peace Aircraft at about 11.35pm on Wednesday.
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 Nigeria Air Force Aircraft C-130, while Air peace had evacuated 282 people.
The Chairman Nigerians in Diaspora Commission Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa said it was a huge relief to receive the returnees, bearing in mind what they went through in Sudan.
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 Terminal of the airport to receive the returnees.
