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115 Nigerians Register In Abuja To Fight Against Russia As Ukraine President Announces Free Visa Regime
Some 115 Nigerians have been reportedly registered by the Ukraine Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital as volunteers to help wage war against Russia.
BIGPENNGR reports that the development is coming at the wake of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s free visa regime for anyone willing to help the nation.
Second Secretary of the Ukraine Embassy, Bohdan Soltys in Abuja, who confirmed the development, said that no step had been taken yet to that effect.
The besiegers mainly men, who thronged the Ukraine Embassy in Abuja, ‘also put down their names in a register provided by the embassy’, according to report in TheNewsGuru.
This is coming at a time Nigerians in the troubled country are struggling to return home.
Nigeria’s foreign affairs ministry had, in a statement by Gabriel Aduda, the ministry’s permanent secretary, announced that it expects to receive the first batch of evacuees from Ukraine on Thursday.
According to Mr Aduda, “the chartered flights (Air Peace, Max Air) will depart on Wednesday, March 2, to pick up Nigerian evacuees back home.”
He added that the Nigerian embassies in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia have received 650, 350, 940 and 150 persons respectively from Ukraine.
On the routes and capacity for the air lifts, Mr Aduda noted that Max Air will lift 560 persons from Romania while Air Peace will lift 364 persons from Poland and 360 from Hungary.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian embassy in Ukraine has ascertained that there are over 5,000 Nigerian students in Ukraine.
(Report excluding headline; TheNewsGuru)
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