Nigeria to spend $1.2 million on buses to evacuate citizens from Sudan


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Nigeria will spend about $1.2 million (about N550 million) on the hiring of luxury buses that will transport its stranded citizens from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, to Egypt. The citizens will then be airlifted from Egypt to Nigeria, an official has said.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said this while addressing journalists at the State House, Abuja, at the end of Wednesday’s meeting of the Federal Executive Council, chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Nigeria has commenced the evacuation of its citizens from Sudan following the recent…

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