The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has sent food to the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan to feed trapped Nigerians waiting to be evacuated from Sudan.
This was said in a statement issued by the agency’s spokesperson, Mr. Manzo Ezekiel, on Thursday in Abuja.
The agency’s Director-General, Mustapha Ahmed, indicated that the food supplies are intended to feed Nigerian people who are awaiting evacuation.
The items consist of 100 bags of rice, 50 bags of beans, 10 cartons of seasoning, 50 cartons of spaghetti, and 5 bags of iodized salt.
He said 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.
This brings the total number of 2,246 stranded Nigerians evacuated to the country from the war-ravaged country to 2,246.
According to him, the evacuation exercise is still in progress as efforts are being made to engage more Nigerian airlines to strengthen the process of transporting more Nigerians willing to come back home.
