The federal government on Monday revealed that Ogun and Imo States had the highest number of returnees who were evacuated from South Africa last week.
Air Peace had last week facilitated the evacuation of 187 Nigerians living in South Africa for free in response to renewed wave of xenophobic attacks in parts of Johannesburg. She explained that it was the responsibility of State governors to integrate and empower Nigerians who are being evacuated from South Africa.
The Commission disclosed that it had since opened communication with the affected states, stressing that the commission is expecting representatives of states to be on ground to receive the returnees. Dabiri-Erewa further explained that the widow with four children was from Ondo state, while expressing satisfaction that the State government was trying to ensure that those kids were enrolled in school.
The NIDCOM chairman said that a lot of people have also offered counseling and entrepreneurship training which the commission was compiling and the returnees will also be contacted and link up with these offers.
Asukwoeb People from Imp State are many in SA.
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