NEMA sends food to stranded Nigerians in Sudan, says efforts ongoing to evacuate them
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), says it has dispatched food items to the Nigerian embassy in Sudan to cater for stranded Nigerians waiting to be evacuated from the country.
In a statement by Manzo Ezikiel, NEMA spokesperson, Mustapha Ahmed, the agency’s director-general, said the food items consisted 100 bags of rice, 50 bags of beans, 10 cartons of seasoning, 50 cartons of spaghetti and 5 bags of iodized salt.
He said the food items have been transported to Port Sudan via a TARCO aircraft which brought 123 stranded Nigerians to Abuja at about 12:25 pm on Thursday.
According to Ahmed, the new arrivals took the tally of Nigerians evacuated from the war-torn Sudan to 2,246.
He said the evacuation exercise was still in progress as efforts were being made to engage more Nigerian airlines to strengthen the process of transporting more Nigerians willing to come home.
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