The Federal Government, on Wednesday said it has spent $1.2m to deploy 40 buses for the evacuation of 2,400 stranded Nigerians out of Sudan.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made the disclosure shortly after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by the President, Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chambers of Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
Onyeama said that the huge amount was to provide security cover for the eight-hour journey from Luxol to Cairo and the eleven-hour trip from Aswan to Cairo, Egypt.
The Minister also revealed that no Nigerian had died so far in the conflict.
The Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces agreed to halt hostilities at midnight Monday, local media reports that fighting had resumed even as a hospital was shelled on Wednesday.
Onyeama said there were no talks about alternative plans for continued education for the evacuees, most of whom are students of the University of Khartoum.
