JUST IN: FIRST BATCH OF SUDAN EVACUEES TO ARRIVE ABUJA MIDNIGHT
– Drama as 26 Extra Evacuees get on-board Flights
The first batch of Nigerian evacuees from troubled Sudan, will be arriving at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja; by 11.40pm today.
A total of 350 Nigerians are expected to land in Abuja aboard a Nigerian Airforce Plane and another plane belonging to commercial airline, Air Peace.
Before the take-off of the flights, Egyptian authorities had discovered an extra twenty-six evacuees above the three-hundred-and-fifty officially presented by Nigerian officials, a situation that made the Egyptians enter into a disagreement with their Nigerian counterparts.
The Egyptians then decided that irrespective of the space on the planes, all Nigerian evacuees must leave with the planes. They also did not allow the evacuees to be returned back to the border.
A decision was then made by Nigerian officials to leave behind some of the luggages while making space for the extra 26 evacuees.
The evacuees had arrived at the Waad Alifah border town since last Friday after having left the campus of the International University of Africa, Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.
Other Nigerian evacuees arrived Port Sudan on Tuesday night for onward ship journey to Jeddah, Saudi-Arabia before airlifting to Nigeria.
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