Air Peace and Max Air have deployed aircraft to evacuate Nigerians who are stranded in Europe as a result of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
This is the first batch of Nigerians to be evacuated since the war broke out about a week ago.
While the aircraft deployed by Air Peace departed Nigeria at 2:20am today, Thursday, March 3, 2022, for Warsaw, Poland, the aircraft deployed by Max Air left Nigeria to Bucharest, Romania shortly after 1:00 pm today
The Max Air flight is expected to return to Nigeria on Friday morning (tomorrow) with about 560 stranded Nigerians.
It would be recalled that the Federal Government engaged Air Peace and Max Air to evacuate over 2000 Nigerian nationals from neighbouring countries such as Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.
