FG: 160 women claiming to be Nigerians in Sudan have no passports for evacuation
Published: 14/May/2023
Source: The Cable (Abuja)
By Claire Mom
The federal government says 160 women claiming to be Nigerians in war-torn Sudan have no passports to fly back to the country.
In a press briefing on Sunday, Mustapha Ahmed, director general of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said the agency was being careful not to evacuate non-Nigerians.
Ahmed said the women did not possess Nigerian passports to verify their citizenship claims.
According to the director-general, some persons claimed their great-grandparents up to the fifth generation were Nigerians while they were born in Sudan.
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