The Federal Government, through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission on Sunday announced that a total of 542 stranded Nigerians were evacuated from the United Arab Emirates.
The commission made this known via its official twitter handle @nidcom_gov.
“A total of 542 stranded Nigerians in the United Arab Emirates evacuated by the Federal Government arrived Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on board the @MaxAirLtd Charted flight.
“The plane touched down at 4:29 am today, October 23, 2022. The evacuees consisted 79 males, 460 females and three infants,“ the commission made this known in a tweet.
The chairman of NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, had in August, noted that the government would evacuate the stranded Nigerians in the middle eastern country.
The NIDCOM boss, who spoke during a press briefing in Abuja, noted that some of the Nigerians who were profiled in the UAE neither had passports nor other means of identification.
There has been a recent spike in the number of harassment cases reported by Nigerians in the UAE.
Recently, a young lady simply identified as Dun ChiChi on twitter was jailed for one year by the UAE government.