The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says it has dispatched assorted food items to the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan to cater for stranded Nigerians waiting to be evacuated to Nigeria from the embattled northeast African 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.
“The items consist of 100 bags of 10 kg rice, 50 bags of 10kg beans, 10 cartons of seasoning, 50 cartons of spaghetti and 5 bags of iodized salt.
“The items were airlifted on Thursday to Port Sudan by Tarco Aviation which earlier brought 123 stranded Nigerians to Abuja.
“The latest arrival has brought the total number of evacuated stranded Nigerians to 2,246 in 12 different flights,“ Ahmed explained.
The statement explained that the items had since been transported to Port Sudan via a TARCO aircraft which brought 123 stranded Nigerians to Abuja at about 12:25 p.m. on Thursday.
The food packages, according to NEMA Director General, Mustapha Ahmed, are intended to feed Nigerian residents as the continuous evacuation continues.
Recall that another group of 126 Nigerians studying in Sudan returned home as the Federal Government of Nigeria says all hands are on deck to repatriate all stranded Nigerians.
The returnees arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on a Tarco Aviation plane at 12:25 pm Nigerian time.
Officials from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Nigeria Immigration Service received them at the airport.
So far, a total number of 2,246 stranded Nigerians evacuated to the country from the war-ravaged country.