The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission announced on Thursday that the first group of Nigerian evacuees leaving Sudan should arrive in Nigeria on Friday, barring any last-minute alterations.
At the 70th State House Ministerial Briefing, which was held at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja and was coordinated by the Presidential Communications Team, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chair of NiDCOM, revealed this information to journalists.
Dabiri-Erewa declared that 13 buses carrying Nigerian students to the Egyptian border at Aswan, where they will be flown to Nigeria, had left two institutions in Khartoum, the capital of the Sudan.
She claimed that the Army and the Rapid Support Forces had been alerted by the Nigerian embassy in Sudan to secure the evacuees’ safe passage.
However, she said that when more Nigerians who had not previously been documented for the experiment suddenly indicated interest in returning home after spotting some of the 40 buses, logistical problems increased.
Despite the fact that at least 5,500 Nigerian pupils are now enrolled in schools in Sudan, Dabiri-Erewa said that there are only roughly three million Nigerians living in the Republic of the Horn.
Geoffrey Onyeama, the minister of foreign affairs, said the evacuation procedure is part of the government’s effort to repatriate Nigerian citizens who have been left there since fighting broke out between the Military and the Rapid Support Forces on April 15. He was speaking after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting.
