Trapped Nigerian Students In Sudan Contribute Money To Transport Themselves To Egypt

Some Nigerian students stranded in Sudan are currently contributing money to transport themselves out of the war-torn country to a safe neighboring country.

One of the students, Abubakar Sadiq made this known on Channels TV Politics Today while recounting the difficulties they are facing in escaping the troubled country.

According to him, there is no specific date set by the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan for the evacuation of stranded citizens and there is no communication on the timelines.

“There is no date because we didn’t receive any information from the Embassy. And today also, there is zero presence of the embassy, so we don’t know actually. Right now students are planning to gather their money to transport themselves to Egypt,” he said.

Sadiq said the drivers of the buses conveying the students collected their passports from them, insisting that it won’t be returned to them until they are paid completely by the government.

The development is coming two days after the federal government announced that it has spent about 1.2million dollars to evacuate the stranded nationals to Cairo, Egypt.

This was revealed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema.