About 187 Nigerians who were evacuated from South Africa have landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

The evacuees, who departed OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, around 4p.m aboard an Air Peace Boeing 777 aircraft, touched down at 9:34pm on Wednesday.

A foreign affairs ministry official, Mr. Kimiebi Ebenfa, who was on board the flight, confirmed their arrival.

He said, “We just landed safely despite the delays in South Africa.”

The returnees comprising men, women and children were the first batch of the 640 Nigerians who registered for evacuation following the xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

About 313 were billed to leave on Wednesday, but most of them could not travel with the first flight due to lack of travel documents.

Providing an update on the evacuation operation earlier while in South Africa, Ebenfa said the passengers checked in for departure at 3:27 pm.

According to him, the flight, which was scheduled for 10a.m. was delayed by the slow check-in process and immigration clearance.

He said, “Flight was delayed due to the slow process of check-in and immigration clearance.

“There were also complaints of system failure.

“Out of the 313 confirmed for the first batch,only 84 were cleared so far,” he said at 9:35a.m. before the flight took off around 4p.m.

The South African High Commission in Abuja could not be reached for comment on reasons for the delay.

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They are welcome back into this frying pan

They only came back to get compensation and return back to SA

People that were planning to come back before go just use this opportunity to avoid air fare

it's shall not be well with SA, they now want them to come and be shouting UP NEPA here after 7 days of power failure.

Did they Land them at the Local airport

Painful but being alive is the most important thing .

That's why ,it's always good to cultivate the habit of saving . Life doesn't always go as we plan it .

Some of them wouldn't start from ground zero again and some will have no alternative than going back to the village .

I wish them well!

I blame Nigerians for all of violence met on them. I am feeling too sleepy to begin writing points to explain why

Jordan777:
People that were planning to come back before go just use this opportunity to avoid air fare

it's not compared to the emotional pains in there heart. Nigeria is well blessed with human and abundant resources.
The killing point is that we are reactive instead of being proactive.
Our future projections seems so slow like a snail,poor leadership and wasteful management of public fund is our biggest menace.

Igbo's Amaka.

Welcome home,SA is never a better option

All thanks to Air Peace and FG

from frying pan to fire

Welcom to dey next level government.......we die here together