First batch of Sudan returnees to arrive Nigeria Friday

The Federal Government said on Thursday the first batch of Nigerians returning from war-torn Sudan would arrive in the country on Friday.

The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who disclosed this at a media briefing in Abuja, said 13 out of the 40 buses hired by the government to bring Nigerians from the North Africa nation left Abuja on Wednesday.

The government had spent $1.2 million to evacuate Nigerians from Sudan to Egypt.