THE Federal Government says 160 women claiming to be Nigerians in Sudan have no passports to fly back to the country.
The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency – NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed said, although the women claimed to be Nigerians, they did not possess Nigerian passports to verify their claims.
Ahmed said that the agency is being careful not to evacuate persons who are not Nigerians.
The Nigerian Diaspora Commission had said there were about three million Nigerians in Sudan and a total of 5,000 students.
However, the NEMA boss said apart from the 2,518 Nigerians that have so far been evacuated and 15 flights operated, the citizenship of many of those claiming to be Nigerians cannot be verified.
He said some of them claimed their great-grandparents up to the fifth generation were Nigerians while they were born in Sudan but that remains unverified.
Ahmed said some desperate Sudanese tried to enter the vehicles that were meant to move Nigerians from Sudan to the Egypt border.