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Nigerian migrants have arrived aboard a chartered Libyan Airlines
aircraft with registration number 5A-LAR on their own volition.
Two hundred and sixty-two more Nigerians voluntarily returned home
from Libya on Wednesday with the help of the International Organisation
for Migration and the Nigerian Embassy in Libya.
The returnees arrived aboard a chartered Libyan Airlines aircraft
with registration number 5A-LAR, which landed at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport, Lagos at 10 p.m.
The returnees, who had been stranded in Libya, were made up of 108 males, 135 females, eight children and 11 infants.
They were received by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service,
the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and
the Police.
Also on ground to receive them were officials of the National
Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria.
Addressing newsmen, Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, the Director General,
NEMA, said the agency in collaboration with the IOM was working to
ensure that Nigerians stranded in Libya are brought back home.
The director general who was represented by Mr Suleiman Yakubu,
Zonal Coordinator, South West, NEMA, said both the federal government
and state governments had initiated various programmes to rehabilitate
and reintegrate the returnees into the society.
He further advised Nigerians, especially the youth, to take
advantage of the enormous opportunities available in the country.
Thousands of Nigerians have been flown back home from the North African
country with the help of the IOM.
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