Over 270 Nigerian students who were stranded in Sudan due to
the ongoing armed conflict were airlifted by Air Peace flight from the Aswan
Airport in Egypt and landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in
Abuja.
The flight also
carried about 80 persons. The Nigerian government had assured citizens of
evacuation plans for nearly two weeks, ultimately facilitating the operation
with a Nigerian Air Force plane.
The returnees were received by the Minister of Humanitarian
Affairs and Disaster Management, Sadiya Farouk; the Chairman/CEO of the
Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa; and the Director
General of the National Management Emergency Agency (NEMA), Ahmed Mustapha, and
were given N100,000 each to help them settle in.
Four more aircraft were expected to arrive to evacuate
almost 400 more people.
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