271 Nigerians Evacuated From South Africa Arrive Lagos
Another batch of 271 Nigerians evacuated from South Africa arrived in Lagos on Tuesday under the Federal Government’s voluntary repatriation programme.
The Air Peace flight landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport shortly before 11 a.m. after departing Johannesburg at about 5 a.m. local time.
Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission received the returnees on arrival.
The latest evacuation is part of the Federal Government’s ongoing efforts to assist Nigerians who have opted to return home amid rising anti-immigration tensions in South Africa and comes ahead of a June 30 deadline reportedly issued by vigilante groups and other organisations calling for undocumented migrants to leave the country.
Before Tuesday’s operation, 328 Nigerians had already been evacuated in two batches made up of the first batch of 262 Nigerians who returned on June 11, while a second batch of 66 arrived in Lagos on June 25.
