175 Nigerians said to be stranded in Libya have arrived the country early Wednesday morning.
The National Emergency Management Agency NEMA and other agencies received the fresh batch of 175 stranded Nigerian returnees from Libya. Mr. Ibrahim Farinlonye the Lagos Territorial Office Cordinator of NEMA who represented the Director General of the Agency, Alhaji Mustapha Habib Ahmed received the returnees on behalf of the federal government.
Mr Farinlonye said " The returnees arrived the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja aboard Boeing 737-800 Al Buraq Air with registration number 5A-DMG. The flight landed at the airport at about 2350 hours under light rain drops. At the end of profiling and documentation of the returnees, the statistics of the new returnees shows that the female adults are 64, female children are 12 and the infant females are 5 making the total 81 females assisted back into the country by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) with funding from European Union".
He further added that the profile indicated that male adults are 77, male children 11 and 6 infant males making a total of 94 males were brought back including 4 medical cases, 2 females and 2 males. Other Agencies along with NEMA at the reception for the returnees are NUD, FAAN, NAPTIP, Refugee Commission and the Police
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