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    Home»Current Affairs»Update: FG Evacuates 5,500 Nigerian Students Trapped In Sudan
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    Update: FG Evacuates 5,500 Nigerian Students Trapped In Sudan

    Biyi LawrenceBy Biyi LawrenceApril 28, 2023Updated:April 28, 2023No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Over 5,500 Nigerians schooling in war-torn Sudan have been evacuated from from the troubled country, according to the Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa.

    Dabiri-Erewa made the disclosure at the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team, on Thursday in Abuja.

    She said the 5,500 students are among the first batches of Nigerian citizens being evacuated.

    According to her, there are over three million Nigerians residing in Sudan and efforts are being made to evacuate as much as possible from the country if the war persists.

    She, however, maintained that priority would be on children, students and women.

    She said already, 13 buses had departed Sudan for Egyptian border Aswan, from where the returnees would be airlifted back to Nigeria.

    She said: “We have some buses that have departed from the African International University in Khartoum, Sudan and as I speak, I think they are just about two hours away from Aswan in Cairo.

    “Others departed from the Elrazi University also in Khartoum.

    ”All in all, 13 buses have departed for Aswan border in Egypt where they will be received by the Nigerian Ambassador there and the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Habib Ahmed, who is already there with some officials.”

    According to NiDCOM chairman, it is now time for Nigeria to focus more on Nigerians in Sudan and other parts of Africa because there are many of them residing in other African countries.

    “When we were talking about Diaspora voting, some people were saying when we do that, it may not augur well. But we said no, we need to go to places like Sudan where we have millions of Nigerians who migrated there years ago and they have relationships and businesses there.

    “The data is being worked on but I want to tell you categorically that by the time we finish the research we are doing, perhaps Sudan would be one of the largest areas where we have the largest concentration of Nigerians in diaspora.

    “Everytime we focus on Europe, America and all that, it is time to focus on Africa and Africans in the Diaspora,” she said.

    Dabiri-Erewa said as the evacuees return to Nigeria, they would be given some stipends to help them settle down before joining their families.

    “NEMA will decide what would be given to the returnees because the funding is with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management. Usually is just a little amount.

    ”The last one, we gave them we evacuated people, we gave them $100. So, it depends on the budget they have.

    “But we in NiDCOM give them recharge cards, SIM cards and sometimes phones. Usually, they get $100 just to hold and these are students coming back to their families. They are not refugees, they have homes,” she said.

    Abike Dabiri-Erewa Nigerian Students in Sudan Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) Sudan Crisis
    Biyi Lawrence

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