A group of 122 Nigerian nationals, including a parent with an infant, is expected to return home on Friday after fleeing the conflict in Ukraine.
The group will arrive in Abuja from the Polish capital, Warsaw, where they had sought safety. The foreign ministry said another group would be evacuated from the Hungarian capital, Budapest on Saturday.
More than a thousand Nigerians have already been evacuated but several thousand more, mostly students, are still thought to be stuck in the country.
In a statement, the ministry advised Nigerians fleeing Ukraine to contact the Nigerian embassy in Hungary.
A total of 1,076 Nigerians living in Ukraine have been evacuated to the country. The government hopes to evacuate 5,000 citizens fleeing the war.
Many of them have crossed into the neighbouring countries of Romania, Poland and Hungary from where they will be ferried back home.
The Russia – Ukrainian conflict is in its second week and about two million people are reported to have fled Ukraine for neighbouring countries.
Source: BBC
