The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Tuesday it had received another batch of stranded Nigerians from Libya.
The Director
General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Maihajja while receiving the
returnees urged them to contribute their quota to national development,
stressing that the quest to build Nigeria required the support of all. The News Agency Nigeria report that
the new set of returnees arrived the Murtala Muhammed International
Airport, Lagos at 7.30pm aboard a Libyan Airline aircraft with registration
number 5A-LAU. NAN report that the number of the returnees comprises of 216
female adults, 13 teenage girls and five infants, while the male adults were
27, 18 were teenage boys and nine, baby boys.
The NEMA boss
also disclosed that a total of 826 Nigerians stranded in Libya, enroute Europe,
voluntarily returned from the North African country in October. Maihajja, represented by the South West Zonal
Coordinator of the agency, Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu, said the returnees were
assisted back to Nigeria by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
and the European Union (EU). He said that the fresh batch added to 138
Nigerians earlier brought back on Oct. 3; 257 on Oct. 24 and 161 on Oct. 26
made the total number of returnees in October 826.
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