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A total of 125 Nigerians fleeing the war in Sudan have arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
The evacuees arrived on Saturday at 12.49 pm on a Tarco
B737-300 aircraft from Port Sudan. The latest arrival brings the total number
of evacuated Nigerians from Sudan to 2,371.
Upon arrival, the returnees were processed by immigration
officials alongside their colleagues from the National Emergency Management
Agency (NEMA) and the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and
Internally Displaced Persons.
On May 3, after nearly two weeks of assurances by the
Federal Government, the first batch of Nigerians fleeing Sudan arrived at the
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
The Air Peace flight carrying over 270 Nigerian students
from the Aswan Airport in Egypt first landed at the airport, with the NAF
C-130H jet conveying about 80 persons following closely behind.
Two days later, the second batch arrived in Abuja around 3
pm on board a Tarco Airline aircraft carrying 130 passengers including 128
females and two males.
The following day, Federal Government officials in Abuja
received the third batch of evacuees arriving from Port Sudan at 1:45 pm. The
returnees were said to have been made up of 131 people, mostly women and
children.
Last Sunday, the fourth set of 422 returnees arrived in
Abuja on two flights — 102 landed on a Tarco Airlines flight from Port Sudan
and 322 on board Azman Air from Aswan, Egypt.
The same day, 413 Nigerians landed on a Max Air flight
arriving in Abuja around 10:50 am.
One hundred and twenty-nine other Nigerians last Monday were
repatriated to Abuja from Port Sudan on board a Tarco Airlines flight. The jet
transporting 124 adults and five infants arrived at 9:15 am.
On Tuesday, another batch made up of 136 stranded Nigerians
arrived at 9:30 am on a Tarco aircraft from Port Sudan.
The evacuation was followed up by last Thursday’s arrival of
126 student evacuees on a Tarco Aviation aircraft from Port Sudan, landing in
Abuja at 12:25 pm.
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