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Nigeria Receives First Batch Of 376 Evacuated Nigerians From Sudan

The Federal Government of Nigeria received the first batch of 376 evacuees from Sudan on Wednesday night.
The first batch of evacuees, who were scheduled to be airlifted to Aswan, Egypt, arrived at the Argeen border last Wednesday.
The evacuees encountered some delays due to various formalities provided by the Egyptian authorities, the platform had earlier in the day reported.
The reasons for the delay were revealed by a Nigerian official in an audio message broadcast on Wednesday to the Situation Room for Nigerians in the Diaspora.
The official explained, “Two aircraft, Air Peace and NAF C130, are supposed to airlift 350 passengers. Unfortunately, 26 additional persons sneaked into the buses.
“The Egyptian personnel were there. They counted and they found 376 Nigerians. They refused the 26 people to stay back at the airport and they also refused to allow Nigerian officials to take the 26 people back to the border.
“Now, they want everyone to leave. Neither will they allow them to go back to the border. The only option is to overload the aircraft. The pilots were consulted and they said they could not airlift more people and have plenty of luggage.”
Meanwhile, the Air Peace plane arrived at 11:35 pm with 278 passengers while NAF C130 arrived at 11:55 pm with 98 passengers on Wednesday night.
The Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa expressed hope that those yet to arrive would be airlifted speedily.
Dabiri-Erewa said, “Everyone is excited to receive them. We hope that those over there will come back speedily. We are expecting that with the arrangements made by NEMA, there are going to be more planes because Egypt makes it difficult.
“For stranded Nigerians at Port Sudan, they are trying to get tickets because it is even more difficult to get flights to Port Sudan. But they have an airline. They are processing it, and once they get tickets, they will come back home. If other airlines get the landed permits, they will quickly go and airlift stranded Nigerians. We are glad that no one lost his or her life. Priority was given to women and children.”
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