The Speaker said the House of Representatives would give each required help to the Ministry to guarantee effective evacuation of Nigerians abandoned from Ukraine.
Gbajabiamila restated the position of the legislature when he welcomed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Godfrey Onyeama, to his office in Abuja on Monday for a meeting on the predicament of Nigerians trapped in the contention between Russia and Ukraine.
The Speaker said the House of Representatives would give each required help to the Ministry to guarantee effective evacuation of Nigerians abandoned from Ukraine.
Gbajabiamila restated the position of the legislature when he welcomed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Godfrey Onyeama, to his office in Abuja on Monday for a meeting on the predicament of Nigerians trapped in the contention between Russia and Ukraine.
Onyeama said the evacuation before planned for Monday was rescheduled for Wednesday to empower the ministry, the House, and the Nigerian foreign missions in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia to finish the formalities of moving Nigerians from Ukraine to safe borders with neighboring countries.
Onyeama said the ministry, in conjunction with the missions, had finished formalities for Nigerians to move to safe boundary points from where they would be moved in transports to the airports in neighboring nations.
He listed Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, and even Russia, among the nations to be utilized as exit points.
The Minister unveiled that there were around 5,600 Nigerian students in Ukraine, added that there were additionally non-students , some of whom probably won’t have been legally documented.
He guaranteed the Speaker that working intimately with the governments of those nations had secured their cooperation with the ministry to give admittance to Nigerians into their territories, preparatory for the evaluation.
