800 stranded Nigerian students in Sudan will be flown from Aswan tomorrow, according to Mustapha Ahmed, director general of the National Emergency Management Agency.
He said “We have aircraft on the ground as we speak, two are in Aswan and our people are on their way to the airport, so hopefully, they will take off tomorrow morning and by tomorrow afternoon or evening, we will receive a large batch of almost 800 students.
“For Port Sudan, we will continue with the evacuation. Tarco is going back. Azman is going to do back-to-back evacuation because of its 400-seater capacity and we have already started engaging Air Peace to go back because of the 274-seater capacity.”
The returnees would receive trauma counseling, according to Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM.
She remarked, “Since the returnees have had so many traumas, there will be trauma counseling for all of them. Keep an eye out for information about various counseling for everyone on the emergency team’s numerous websites. We are discussing that with Dangote and a few other NGOs.
Since the nation began airlifting on Wednesday, 637 evacuees have been transported back home from Egypt and Port Sudan.
The first group of 376 passengers was flown on Wednesday evening, while the second batch of 130 passengers was evacuated on Friday by the Sudanese aircraft Tarco.
