On Monday, the returnees arrived on Tarco Airlines from Port Sudan at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
In a statement, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) acknowledged their arrival.
The eighth group of evacuees, 129 Nationals, arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport around 9:25 am local time on May 8 aboard Tarco Air, according to a tweet from NIDCOM.
Representatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) welcomed them. They included 124 adults and five newborns.
Personnel from the military, the National Agency for the Prevention of Trafficking in People (NAPTIP), and the Nigeria Police Force are among the others.
Officials greeted the returnees at 9:15 am, and government representatives gave them returnee registration forms to fill out.
In the meantime, NIDCOM reported that 1,600 Nigerians had been evacuated from Sudan and brought back to Nigeria.
According to the report, the evacuees were returned to Nigeria by the Nigerian government with the aid of a few private planes and organisations.
The good news is that no Nigerian lives have been lost thus far, according to a tweet from NiDCOM.
According to NiDCOM’s analysis of the evacuation, Tarco Air brought in 130 individuals in the third batch. At the same time, Military Jet C13H and Air Peace Flight transported a total of 376 people back in the first and second batches.
Tarco Air flew an additional 131 people in the fourth batch, Max Air flew 410 in the fifth batch, and Tarco Air and Azman Air flew 102 and 322 people in the sixth and seventh batches, respectively.
