NIDCOM, in a tweet, said the buses arrived on Tuesday night with more buses expected to arrive on Wednesday morning with help from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan.
“Last night, the Nigeria Evacuation team in SUDAN received some buses to transport Nigerian Students to nearby borders in Egypt, before airlifting them to Nigeria, this has been sorted by Federal Government through @nemanigeria and the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan,” read the tweet.
“More buses are arriving this morning and the stranded students will depart today.”
Channels Television also gathered that some of the Nigerian evacuees spent the night waiting at one of the pickup points until Wednesday morning.
