The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has announced the opening of the Egyptian border for Nigerian students evacuated from Sudan.
Dabiri-Erewa said the border was opened after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), spoke with the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
Buses had arrived Sudan to evacuate Nigerian students caught in the ongoing crisis to the Egyptian border from where they are to be airlifted to Nigeria, however, they were refused entry on getting to the Aswan border.
According to NIDCOM, the Egyptian authorities were insisting on visas, adding that the Nigerian mission in Egypt was working to rectify the issue.
However, in a recent statement issued by Abike via her tweeter handle, she said that the borders have been opened after the intervention of the president
She wrote, “The border has just been opened, (with stringent conditions) after President Buhari’s intervention with the Egyptian President. So, the processing of evacuees by the Nigerian Embassy in Egypt will begin.”
