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The Nigerian government has said it spent the sum of $1.2 million to hire buses to transport stranded citizens from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital to Egypt, from where they would be airlifted to Nigeria.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday.
Giving an update on the situation in warring Sudan as regards the evacuation of Nigerian citizens, the minister said, “You recall that the main challenge we had was, first of all, securing the authorisation of the Sudanese government and then security support for the convoy. This is because it has been decided that we will transport or convey Nigerian to the Egyptian border Aswan.
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