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The first set of Nigerian citizens who fled war-torn Sudan, arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 11.40pm on Wednesday, May 3, with an estimate of 376 evacuees.    The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM, disclosed this via its Twitter handle.     The Air Peace flight carrying over …

Some Nigerians who were stranded in Sudan are currently on their way back home.   A video shared online shows some of them singing the National Anthem as they were being airlifted to Nigeria.   The NAF C-130H aircraft being used to convey them is expected to touch down at …

The tyre in one of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, to Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia was gutted by fire in the early hours of Monday, May 1.     Twenty-six buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12am …

Video Duration 24 minutes 57 seconds 24:57 There are fears the conflict could disrupt the precarious situation over the border. The conflict in Sudan has entered its third week despite the warring sides agreeing to a ceasefire. The rival generals are playing the blame game, accusing each other of targeting …

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said it will commence the evacuation of stranded Nigerians from Sudan on Tuesday, April 25.    NEMA said the evacuation will be done via road from Khartoum to Cairo in Egypt. Plans have been made to evacuate about 2,650 to 2,800 people first …

Disclosing this during a Channels Television programme, Politics Today, on Sunday, April 23, 2023, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said the government has concluded arrangements to bring the trapped Nigerians back to the country by road. This is coming as a result of the ongoing conflict in the …

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffery Onyeama, says the Federal government is addressing claims that some Nigerian students fleeing crisis-ridden Sudan are being denied entry into Ethiopia.   In a video that went viral, a young man claimed that as the crisis in the North Eastern African country continues, many …

Nigerian students in Sudan have been directed to remain indoors by the federal government who are still making arrangements for their safe evacuation from the country which has been plunged into a violent crisis.    The directive was conveyed via a statement released on Sunday, April 23, by the Embassy …

US President Joe Biden has announced the evacuation of all US government personnel from war torn Sudan. A group of just over 100 special operations forces were involved in the extraction. The operation was led by US Africa Command and conducted in close coordination with the State Department, said Lloyd …

A Sudanese army spokesman said in a statement on Saturday that the United States, Britain, France, and China would begin evacuating from the capital Khartoum “in the coming hours” using military transport aircraft. By Saturday evening, however, no citizens of Western countries had been evacuated. Al-Burhan has pledged to “facilitate …