The Minister of Foreign Affairs,Geoffrey Onyeama, and the Minister of State, Zubairu Dada, confirmed it while briefing State House Correspondents on unfolding developments regarding the crisis.
Onyeama revealed that forty luxury buses were already on ground in Sudan to pick up Nigerian nationals in the country to Egypt where they would be airlifted back home.
He said the evacuation efforts are being coordinated by the Nigerian embassy in Sudan as well as authorities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Ministers said the buses were hired at one-point-two million dollars, noting that it also included the cost of providing security while conveying them to the Egyptian territory.
Ambassador Dada also noted that the Saudi Arabia government had already evacuated some Nigerians through the sea to safety and that once the situation calms down arrangements will be made to move them back to Nigeria.
