Abuja – Another batch of 265 Nigerians on Saturday arrived Abuja from Sudan.
They came in from Port Sudan in two batches of 125 and 140 evacuees.
The first batch of 125 evacuees arrived at 12.49 pm on a Tarco B737-300 aircraft from Port Sudan while the second batch of 140 Nigerians arrived Abuja at about 6:45pm.
The evacuees included three infants and 30 children.
The number of Saturday’s new arrivals brings to 2,518 the total number of Nigerians so far evacuated from Sudan by the Federal Government.
Abdur -rahman Baligun, Spokesman of the NiDCOM
confirmed the arrival of the new batch of Nigerians.
“Upon arrival, the returnees were processed by immigration officials, NEMA and the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons,” he said. (vitalnewsngr.com)
