The Federal Government will receive another 270 Nigerian returnees from South Africa on Wednesday, July 8, in what officials describe as the fourth Air Peace-operated evacuation flight under its voluntary repatriation programme. The aircraft is scheduled to depart Lagos at 3:30 pm on Tuesday, arrive in Johannesburg by midnight, then return with the returnees, landing at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, by 5 am Wednesday.
The exercise continues efforts to bring home Nigerians affected by renewed xenophobic tensions in South Africa, following a June 30 deadline set by anti-migrant groups for undocumented foreigners to leave.
So far, evacuation flights have brought home close to 900 Nigerians: 258 in the first batch on June 11, 66 via a separately facilitated ValueJet flight on June 24, 269 more on June 30, and 271 in the fourth batch that arrived on July 3. With Wednesday’s batch of 270, the cumulative total is set to climb past 1,100.
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