ALL Nigerian students fleeing war-torn Sudan have been successfully evacuated from Sudan, the Federal Government has announced.
About 2,518 Nigerians have been airlifted to the country
since the commencement of the evacuation exercise on May 3.
Saturday’s evacuation was the 15th batch where 125 more Nigerians arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja.
The evacuees arrived 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.
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.
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.
