The passengers were on board an Azman Air carrier, with 324 of them evacuees, thus making it the seventh batch of stranded Nigerians to return home from crisis-ridden Sudan.
Mr Balogun said the briefing stated that the next batch of returnees was expected by flight in “another 12 hours or less, all things being equal”.
Fatima Waziri-Azi, NAPTIP director-general, says Nigerian women working in Iraq are exploited in diverse ways.
Three hundred and seventy-six Nigerian students trapped in war-torn Sudan have arrived in Abuja.
The 31st course participants, on a visit to the country engaged in various activities, including visits to military installations.
An amateur footage making the rounds online showed some stranded Igbo students with their luggages, accusing the federal government of discrimination in the evacuation process.
The government said it has already convened a Situation Room to monitor the evacuation exercise.
“Nigeria ranks fourth among African countries with large numbers of diasporans outside the continent…the extra-continental Nigerian diaspora has tripled in two decades.”
“The last one we gave them, we evacuated people, we gave them $100. So, it depends on the budget they have.”
