Tag: Sudan
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Reps invite Onyeama, Dabiri-Erewa over situation of Nigerians in Sudan
The House of Representatives has invited the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to appear before it to give an account of the evacuation status of Nigerians in Sudan.
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Stranded Nigerian Students in Sudan borders narrate ordeal
Nigerian students who are being evacuated from Sudan to neighbouring countries have shared their ordeal in the face of evacuation from the war-torn country. Many of these students revealed what they faced in the process of trying to evacuate them to other countries sharing borders with Sudan.
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Egypt finally opens border to stranded Nigerian students in Sudan
The Egyptian authorities finally opened their borders to stranded Nigerian students in war-torn Sudan, Nigerian government said on Monday. According to FG, the borders were opened to the students have an intervention from President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Sudan: Bus transporting Nigerian students catches fire
On Monday, one of the buses that was transporting stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, to Port Sudan, where they were scheduled to enter Saudi Arabia, went up in flames. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports that a total of 26 buses had departed from Al Razi at midnight and were en route to Port Sudan…
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BREAKING: Finally, Egypt opens border for evacuation of Nigerians
Egypt has finally opened its border for the evacuation of Nigerian students escaping the war in Sudan.
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JUST IN: NANSS, finally confirms evacuation of all Nigerian students from war torn Sudan
Nigerian students remaining in Khartoum, Sudan, have all been evacuated from the raging war in the country. This was contained in a statement on Sunday by the National Association of Nigerian Students Sudan. The statement, signed by the NANSS Public Relations Officer 1, Amal Mohammed Pantami, said: “This is to inform the general public that…
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Tentative calm returns to Sudanese cities as ceasefire extended
Streets in some Sudanese cities returned to relative calm on Sunday as a shaky ceasefire helped scale back a conflict that has left hundreds dead in the past two weeks.
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Sudan: Egyptian border remains closed against Nigerian students
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has disclosed that the Egyptian border is still not opened yet for students and other Nigerians escaping from Sudan to be evacuated.
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How CBN system delayed evacuation of Nigerians from Sudan
A Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Dr Sani Gwarzo has opened up on how the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) system of money transfer delayed the evacuation of Nigerians from Sudan.
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Sudan: FG defends $1.2m spent on evacuating Nigerians
The Federal Government has explained that the sum of 1.2 million dollars allegedly spent in hiring buses for the evacuation of Nigerian students in Sudan was due to the dire need of the war situation.