The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says
a total of 1,295 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya in November after
being stranded in the volatile North African country en route Europe. The
Nigerians returned in various batches between Nov. 6 and Nov. 30 with the
assistance of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the
European Union (EU).
The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Mustapha Maihajja, made the disclosure while receiving a fresh batch of 150 Nigerians who arrived the country on Thursday.
The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Mustapha Maihajja, made the disclosure while receiving a fresh batch of 150 Nigerians who arrived the country on Thursday.
The returnees were brought back aboard a Boeing
737-800 aircraft with Registration
Number:6A-DMG. The aircraft landed at the
Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about
9.15pm.
The returnees comprised of 13 female adults and one
teenage girl while the male were 133 adults, two teenage boys and one baby boy.
They were
received on behalf of Maihajja by the South West Zonal coordinator of NEMA,
Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu . Also on ground to welcome the returnees back home were
officials of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the National Agency for
the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), the Federal Airports
Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Police.
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