The chairperson of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri Erewa has revealed that the Egypt border has been opened to Nigerians fleeing Sudan after President Muhammadu Buhari had spoken with Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. “The border has just been opened, ( with stringent conditions ) after President Buhari’s intervention with the Egyptian President. So, the processing of evacuees by the Nigerian Embassy in Egypt will begin,” Dabiri-Erewa said. Nigerians, who departed Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, on Wednesday languished at the border between Sudan and Egypt over visa-related issues.
The first sets of 637 Nigerian students evacuated from Sudan are stranded at the Egyptian border with the war-torn country. Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, who spoke on Sunday night, said Egyptian authorities had insisted on clearing all the 637 Nigerians before they could be allowed entry into their country. He explained that the Federal Government might move the students to Port Sudan for evacuation if Egypt delayed further.
Meanwhile, in a message sent by Nigerian Ambassador to Egypt, Nura Rimi, and sighted by our correspondent on Monday, the approval to be granted for the evacuation of Nigerians through Egypt, with stringent conditions and guidelines are: “Details and schedule of the aircraft; capacity of the aircraft; a strong pledge that once our citizens depart the border, they will be conveyed directly to the designated airport.”
Others are a “Comprehensive list of the evacuees, with passport numbers; valid travel documents (passport or ETC); the presence of Nigerian government officials at the points of embarkation; and standby buses that will immediately convey them to the airport.”
Giving updates on the stranded Nigerians at the border, Dabiri-Erewa said, “With the intervention of President Buhari, Egypt has finally opened its border to Nigerians fleeing Sudan. With an Air Force plane already on the ground in Aswan, Egypt, the processing of the first set of evacuees will begin.”
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