The federal government says Nigerian students stranded in Sudan will likely receive at least $100 upon evacuation and return to Nigeria. The stipend would be given the stipend to help them settle down before joining their families.
NEMA will decide what would be given to the returnees because the funding is with the ministry of humanitarian affairs and disaster management. Usually it is just a little amount,” said Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the chairwoman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) in Abuja on Thursday during the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the presidential communications team.
The federal government official added, “The last one we gave them, we evacuated people, we gave them $100. So, it depends on the budget they have. But we in NIDCOM give them recharge cards, SIM cards and sometimes phones. Usually, they get $100 just to hold, and these are students coming back to their families. They are not refugees. They have homes.”
Ms Dabiri-Erewa revealed that 13 buses had departed Sudan for the Egyptian border Aswan, where the returnees would be airlifted to Nigeria. The government official said over 5,500 Nigerian students in Sudan would be among the first Nigerian nationals to be evacuated.
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