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However, the students who had been stranded in Sudan for weeks now say that the Federal Government has not paid them their money, and that they are left with nothing to eat and no way to return home.
The students had been protesting outside the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Abuja since Thursday.
The PUNCH reports that the students are demanding that the Federal Government pay them their money, as well as provide them with food and water.
The Nigerian students who are stranded in Sudan have accused the Federal Government of abandoning them in Khartoum, the country’s capital.
This is just as the hopes of Nigerians stranded in Sudan returning to Nigeria on Friday were dashed, amid the controversy surrounding their evacuation from the crisis-torn country.
The government had released N150m for hiring 40 buses to convey its desperate citizens from Sudan to Cairo in Egypt.
The money was said to have been paid to an undisclosed transport company on Tuesday at 12:37 pm by the Central Bank of Nigeria through the National Emergency Management Agency.
However, the students who had been stranded in Sudan for weeks now say that the Federal Government has not paid them their money, and that they are left with nothing to eat and no way to return home.
The students had been protesting outside the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Abuja since Thursday.
