The National Emergency Management Agency on Thursday said a total number of 2,246 stranded Nigerians had so far been evacuated to the country from war-ravaged Sudan
NEMA spokesman, Manzo Ezikiel, who disclosed this in a statement, said the agency had dispatched assorted food items to the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan to cater for stranded Nigerians waiting to be evacuated to Nigeria from Sudan.
Mustapha Ahmed, the Director-General of NEMA, explained that the food items were meant to cater for the Nigerian citizens who are awaiting evacuation.
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The items consisted of 100 bags of rice, 50 bags of beans, 10 cartons of seasoning, 50 cartons of spaghetti and 5 bags of iodized salt.
He said that the items had since been transported to Port Sudan via a TARCO aircraft which brought 123 stranded Nigerians to Abuja at about 12:25 p.m.
According to him the evacuation exercise is still in progress as efforts are being made to engage more Nigerian airlines to strengthen the process of transporting more Nigerians willing to come back home. (NAN)
