The Federal government, on Thursday, said the first batch of stranded Nigerians evacuated from war-torn Sudan is expected to arrive in the country on Friday.
The Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said 13 out of the 40 buses hired to transport Nigerians from Sudan left since Wednesday and moved by road to the border town of Aswan in Egypt, where both the Embassy staff in Egypt and the Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) will receive the evacuees.
She explained that children and women were given priority as they were profiled for administrative purposes.
Dabiri-Erewa assured that all those who registered to be evacuated home will all be facilitated irrespective of status, gender and state.
“A Boeing 777 from Air Peace will depart Lagos by evening of Thursday and will transport the first batch home on Friday,” she said.
Dabiri-Erewa earlier said the issue of stranded evacuees on their way to Egypt, as seen in a viral video, had been resolved. She said besides the huge population of Nigerian American students in Sudan, there were millions of other Nigerians in the country doing their legitimate business and residing there peacefully.