{"id":92380,"date":"2022-03-02T13:10:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=92380"},"modified":"2022-03-02T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T12:10:17","slug":"ukraine-max-air-begins-evacuation-of-stranded-nigerians-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ukraine-max-air-begins-evacuation-of-stranded-nigerians-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Max Air begins evacuation of stranded Nigerians today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Max Air on Tuesday confirmed that beginning from today (Wednesday), it would commence the evacuation of Nigerians who were left stranded by the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>But Air Peace, on the other hand, said it had not started the evacuation process, stressing that this would be made public soon.<\/p>\n<p>The General Manager, Operations, Max Air, Raymond Omodiagbe, told our correspondent that the Federal Government had requested the airline to carryout the task and that the carrier was set to begin.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe have been assigned and we are on it. We\u2019ve been airlifting pilgrims to Hajj and doing chartered operations for many years. So we are not new to this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo understand that we have been commissioned and we will depart tomorrow (Wednesday). We are operating tomorrow and it is to start bringing in the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked to state the number of flights or airplanes that would be deployed for the operation, Omodiagbe replied, \u201cWe are doing it one at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked to state when Air Peace would start evacuating Nigerians as required by the Federal Government, a spokesperson of the airline, Stanley Olisa, said it would be communicated soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not started but specifics will be disclosed soon,\u201d he told our correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government had on Monday said it would on Wednesday begin the evacuation of about 2,000 Nigerians who have fled the war in Ukraine to neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who disclosed this in an interview on a Channels Television\u2019s \u2018Politics Today\u2019 programme, revealed President Muhammadu Buhari had approved funds for the airlines to evacuate Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the number of evacuees was about 2,000, and when the evacuation would take place, he said, \u201cWednesday hopefully\u2026Air Peace and Max Air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said there were about 8,000 Nigerians in Ukraine, 5,000 of whom were students, adding that the Federal Government had tipped Air Peace and Air Max to airlift the Nigerians who wanted to be evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Onyeama\u00a0 while briefing the House of Representatives on the evacuation efforts stated, \u201cWe made Romania the hub and over a thousand Nigerians have crossed there. Poland has about 250, Budapest in Hungary has a similar number, Slovakia is rising rapidly. It is also around 200. There are some Nigerians in a place called Sumy close to the Russian border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been in touch with the ambassador. There are about 150 of them who are looking to cross into Russia and we have asked the ambassador in Russia to try and get a permit for them to transit to Russia and hopefully by Wednesday we will start deploying planes to start bringing the Nigerians,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Onyeama argued that it was not the sole duty of the Federal Government to evacuate Nigerians that were stranded abroad because this was not the global practice. 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