Two hundred and sixty-two more Nigerians voluntarily returned home from Libya on Wednesday with the help of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the Nigerian Embassy in Libya.
Th e News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the returnees arrived aboard a chartered Libyan Airlines aircraft with registration number 5A-LAR, which landed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos at 10pm.
Th e returnees, who had been stranded in Libya, were made up of 108 males, 135 females, eight children and 11 infants. Th ey were received by offi cers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffi cking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the Police.
Also on ground to receive them were offi cials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Addressing journalists, the Zonal Coordinator, South West, NEMA, Suleiman Yakubu, said the agency in collaboration with the IOM was working to ensure that Nigerians stranded in Libya are brought back home.
Yakubu 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. NAN reports that thousands of Nigerians have been fl own back home from the North African country with the help of the IOM.
