National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday in Lagos received 126 Nigerians who had been stranded in Libya as they returned home.
The acting coordinator of the Lagos Territorial Office of the Agency, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
Farinloye, who represented the Director General, Alhaji Mustapha Ahmed, said that the Nigerians were received at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 16:22 p.m. He said that the returnees, who arrived aboard a Boeing 700-787 Al Buraq Air with registration number 5A-DMG, were brought back to the country by the International Organisation for Migration through a voluntary repatriation programme.
Farinloye said that the programme was meant for the distressed Nigerians who had left the country to seek greener pastures in various European countries but could not afford to return when their journey became frustrated.He said that the returnees include 46 male adults, 62 female adults, two male and six female children, as well as four female and six male infants.
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