By Fadlillah Abdallah
The Aliko Dangote Foundation has joined the Federal government of Nigeria, and Air Peace to help in the evacuation and resettling of stranded Nigerians following the crisis in Sudan.
According to the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, Zouera Youssoufou, he has been in contact with the management of Air Peace as well as the Federal Government to render the Foundation’s support to the stranded Nigerians.
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“The Foundation will collaborate with the Federal Government and Air Peace in ensuring seamless transportation of the stranded Nigerians and more importantly provide logistics and succour to the evacuees, to make them settle more comfortably when they return to Nigeria,” he said.
Youssoufou further said that the foundation has contacted Nigeria’s humanitarian disaster relief agencies “…indicating our interest in collaborating with them to ensure that all Nigerians stranded in Sudan are brought back home safely.”
It would be recalled that Aliko Dangote Foundation supported the Nigerian government with logistics support for the Nigerian volunteer health workers who supported the Ebola containment efforts in Liberia and Sierra Leone upon their return to the country in 2015.
Also, during the recent COVID pandemic, ADF supported the return of Nigerians from India and Dubai during the outbreak of the pandemic with specially chartered flights and COVID testing and quarantining when they arrived back in Nigeria.
Since 2011, ADF has supported several thousand IDPs in Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, and Abuja with a total spending of over 25 billion naira in the provision of food, shelter, and health services.
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