ABOUT 300 of the Nigerian students who were recently rescued from the beleaguered Ukrainian city of Sumy have arrived in Abuja after a plane carrying them from the Hungarian capital Budapest landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport over the weekend.
There are about 5,600 Nigerian students in Ukraine, most of them studying...
HUNDREDS of Nigerians are believed to be among the thousands of civilians evacuated from the town of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine after the belligerents agreed to a brief ceasefire so they could leave via a safety corridor.
For nearly two weeks now, Ukraine and Russia have been involved in a bloody war that has resulted in...
OVER 400 Nigerians living on the Ukraine arrived in Abuja this morning as the ongoing evacuation programme initiated to airlift all 5,600 of them got underway with this first batch being flown in from Romania.
Earlier this week, Nigeria's federal cabinet approved a sum of $8.5m as funding for the evacuation of refugees...
NIGERIA'S ongoing expansion of its aviation industry enjoyed a major boost yesterday as the latest carrier United Nigeria Airlines commenced regular scheduled flight operations at the Port Harcourt International Airport.
Despite having a potentially aviation market due to its large population of 200m, Nigeria is not a major...