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Nigerians in Diaspora Commission @nidcom_gov

The Nigerian government has demonstrated commendable proactive leadership and dedication to citizen welfare amid the ongoing tensions in the Middle East.

Willing Nigerians in Iran are being safely escorted across the Armenia border by officials from the Nigerian Embassy in Tehran, ensuring smooth and secure passage for those wishing to leave. Reassuringly, no Nigerian in Iran has been affected by the conflict so far, with government officials remaining stationed at the border to receive and assist all evacuees.

This swift coordination working closely with Armenian authorities to facilitate safe exit routes highlights the Federal Government's commitment to protecting its citizens abroad during crises.

The Federal Government is vigilant and effectively responding to the safety and well-being of Nigerians across the world.

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abikedabiri @abikedabiri

Willing Nigerians being escorted across the Armenian border by officials of the Nigerian embassy in Iran for safe passage.No Nigerian in Iran has been affected by the war as officials remain at the border to receive all who went to leave #israeliranwar #wariniran

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#Iran #IranWar #IranIsraelWar

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Ikenda Clinton Elechi #TechUpPortHarcourt'24 @realsirice

Nigerians in Kuwait are largely safe . We received WhatsApp communication from the Embassy stating they're monitoring the situation

Thanks so much for your efforts

https://x.com/i/status/2031447610414813521

Awaiting President @ToluOmoADEYEMO

Ma'am @abikedabiri

Could you please extend same gesture to those of us in Qatar.

We've resgitered our presence here with the Nigerian embassy Doha and awaiting feedback.

Many thanks for your kind attention and support.

https://x.com/i/status/2031444311552807070


abikedabiri @abikedabiri

Once the airspace is safe to fly you will be evacuated

https://x.com/i/status/2031475531275812878

Onyeka!!!!27thJuly @yeeeeka

Never been this helpless before in my life😫 9days stuck in Qatar with my family and other Nigerians who were on transit, countries have picked up their citizens from here it’s mostly Nigerians that are left! We have called Embassy and Consulate yet no postive response

Every Nigerian here just feels helpless,the passport can’t even get us a Saudi visa! to atleast leave from here,once you click Nigerian it stops even with a Uk visa. This situation is a highly Diplomatic situation but we seem to not have a strong diplomatic relations

For the repatriation flight, for how long are we going to have to wait for? We need help here, there are really old people here with us and children. @abikedabiri @NigeriaMFA @firstladyship @ruffydfire

https://x.com/i/status/2030900407447191746


abikedabiri @abikedabiri

Dear Onyeka Sorry about this situation Aftermath of wars usually unpredictableThese are the emergency numbers for, Doha, Mobile: +97430197102 +97430197261. You can please e mail us on admin@nidcom.gov.ng .or dm our official handle @nidcom_gov. For follow up

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abikedabiri @abikedabiri

And as for repatriation flights the skies are currently unsafe to fly. Luckily a flight came in from the UAE to Lagos two days ago just before another strike and closure of the Air Space.Once the air space opens , the multi agency fgn team on crises and evacuation are on standby Our prayers with you and all our people in affected countries

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Nigeria begins evacuation of citizens in Iran

She also stated that Nigerian officials are waiting at the border to receive nationals fleeing the ongoing war, adding that no Nigerian casualties have been recorded.

by Beloved John
  March 11, 2026

The Nigerian government has begun evacuating Nigerians in Iran, with officials accompanying them across the Armenian border as the US and Israel’s war with Iran continues.
The head of the Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, in a post on Tuesday, said citizens willing to leave are being safely escorted out of the country through the border.

She also stated that Nigerian officials are waiting at the border to receive nationals fleeing the ongoing war, adding that no Nigerian casualties have been recorded.

“Willing Nigerians are being escorted across the Armenian border by officials of the Nigerian embassy in Iran for safe passage.

“No Nigerian in Iran has been affected by the war as officials remain at the border to receive all who went to leave #israeliranwar #wariniran,” she said.

She did not provide the exact number of Nigerians in Iran or the number of people who had already been evacuated.

The evacuation efforts come 11 days into the war that has caused the death of over 1,300 people, and injured and displaced several others.

According to the Iranian Ministry of Health, US and Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,300 people in Iran, with over 12,000 others injured.

Iran reported that the victims’ ages ranged from eight months to 88 years old. It noted that about 200 women are among those killed, including the 168 Minab elementary school girls.

Similarly, about 55 healthcare workers were wounded and 11 killed, including four physicians, two nurses, and three emergency workers.

Israel’s health ministry also reported that at least 13 Israelis have been killed and 1,929 others wounded due to barrages of Iranian fire into the country since the war began.

Eight US soldiers have been confirmed dead, while Lebanon has reported 394 deaths, including 83 children, caused by Israeli attacks.

Lebanon also said more than half a million people have been displaced during a week of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

US President Donald Trump on Monday said that the war with Iran will be over “very soon,” but made it clear it won’t be this week.

But the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), in response to Mr Trump, said Iranians, not the Americans, would “determine the end of the war.”

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei also declared that there was no room to discuss a ceasefire while military attacks by the US and Israel continue.

“We are on the eleventh day of military aggression by the United States and the Zionist regime. We did not start this war,” he said at a news conference.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/863113-nigeria-begins-evacuation-of-citizens-in-iran.html


Photo) Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa

Nigerians and Japa cha

Who in his right senses would even want to leave Nigeria for Iran in the first place? . I rather old and die inside this my ughelli than to go and be living like a slave in a country like iran

Well,as for those of you here who believes Iran is winning the war, y'all can go replace our brothers who are being evacuated to Nigeria.

This evacuation is a very risky venture at this time because Iranian military can even shoot down the plane evacuating them by mistake. They have done it in the past when they mistakenly shot down their own passenger aircraft.


Iran that just fire missiles and drones anyhow without direction, it is well oh

May God help us.

God bless Nigeria

Evacuate them through the land borders into a safer country, move them on a plane from that country.

Why did they not evacuate when war is brewing?

Sonnobax15:

Nigerians and Japa cha

Who in his right senses would even want to leave Nigeria for Iran in the first place? . I rather old and die inside this my ughelli than to go and be living like a slave in a country like iran

Well,as for those of you here who believes Iran is winning the war, y'all can go replace our brothers who are being evacuated to Nigeria.

I guess you are either a civil servant or unemployed.
You can’t make this comments if you are a businessman.Do you know the lists of items in Iran’s production chain?..petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals etc

Sonnobax15:

Nigerians and Japa cha

Who in his right senses would even want to leave Nigeria for Iran in the first place? . I rather old and die inside this my ughelli than to go and be living like a slave in a country like iran

Well,as for those of you here who believes Iran is winning the war, y'all can go replace our brothers who are being evacuated to Nigeria.

A northerner in Nigeria will be willing to go anywhere in the world, even if it is Afghanistan. Nigeria in the North is worse than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. They don't kidnap people anyhow in Iran. They do a lot in the North and it's now extending all over Nigeria. In a decade year more, Nigeria will be so unliveable, except a miracle happens drastically.

Sonnobax15:

Nigerians and Japa cha

Who in his right senses would even want to leave Nigeria for Iran in the first place? . I rather old and die inside this my ughelli than to go and be living like a slave in a country like iran

Well,as for those of you here who believes Iran is winning the war, y'all can go replace our brothers who are being evacuated to Nigeria.

Nigerians in some of those “unlikely” countries are not there as a result of japa; some are on scholarly and research purposes while others are expatriates in the oil and gas industries.

From frying pan to fire. Godspeed.

Omo! You people really tried o with this emigration stuffs. What the … are you guys looking to find in Iran of all places?

PS: if we check well sef, e sure me die that there will be some Nigerian’s in Afghanistan niyen o 🤔

Sonnobax15:

Nigerians and Japa cha

Who in his right senses would even want to leave Nigeria for Iran in the first place? . I rather old and die inside this my ughelli than to go and be living like a slave in a country like iran

Well,as for those of you here who believes Iran is winning the war, y'all can go replace our brothers who are being evacuated to Nigeria.

Congrats on your new born baby

Sonnobax15:

Nigerians and Japa cha

Who in his right senses would even want to leave Nigeria for Iran in the first place? . I rather old and die inside this my ughelli than to go and be living like a slave in a country like iran

Well,as for those of you here who believes Iran is winning the war, y'all can go replace our brothers who are being evacuated to Nigeria.

Make ignorance no wire u o Iran fine pass ur lekki and abj

Why? I thought they loved Iran so much they could just die for her. Why waste tax players monies?

Some people think. Say 9ja develop pass Iran 😝😂

Those Nigerians in Iran must be majority Muslims

If na me they there actually I'm not leaving with that stupid evacuation shxt... F me

Nice move, pls those who are protesting the death of ayotola here should be relocated to Iran as immediate as possible

So Nigeria has 2 Consulates in Saudi Arabia Arabia and only one in UK and US

Nigeria is overdue for a second Consulate in UK
Nigerians cannot be Travelling from Manchester and Newcastle to London everytime
they need anything from the Nigerian embassy

UK Nigerians should be treated like Nigeria’s 37th State because of their population

Sonnobax15:

Nigerians and Japa cha

Who in his right senses would even want to leave Nigeria for Iran in the first place? . I rather old and die inside this my ughelli than to go and be living like a slave in a country like iran

Well,as for those of you here who believes Iran is winning the war, y'all can go replace our brothers who are being evacuated to Nigeria.

Nigerians in Iran are not living like slaves in Iran. It is Nigerians living in Nigeria that are living like a slave in their country

I wonder what a Nigeria man will be doing in Iran, except a suicide mission.Iran is a training ground for everything that is bad, including terrorism and any Nigerian coming from Iran must undergo serious security scrutiny.

Naija my country, na inside trailer una dey evacuate citizens?
Na wa o😩

Madam abike, hope is not inside this long long trucks u use to pack our Nigerians?

So all petrochemicals and pharmaceutical in sane enclave are not good or enough, except the ones from that unpredictable and terrorists entity.God forbid!

Benoxvals:
I guess you are either a civil servant or unemployed.
You can make comments if you are a businessman.Do you know the lists of items in Iran’s production chain?..petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals etc

Small nyash Dey shake, from what I hear… it’s safer to be in Iran than going to Nigeria….

I wish the returnees luck….

I'm hearing this for the first time Nigerians lives in Iran? I never knew Nigerians goes to Iran.

Iran I'm a bit surprised to be honest.

You are not far away from the truth and to put it rightly, all the atrocities going on in the north have direct link with Iran, Afghanistan and other terrorists incline Nations

geoworldedu:
A northerner in Nigeria will be willing to go anywhere in the world, even if it is Afghanistan. Nigeria in the North is worse than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. They don't kidnap people anyhow in Iran. They do a lot in the North and it's now extending all over Nigeria. In a decade year more, Nigeria will be so unliveable, except a miracle happens drastically.