Libya's Nigerian migrants

Some two hundred and sixty-two Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya on Wednesday aboard a chartered Libyan Airlines aircraft.

The aircraft with registration number 5A-LAR touched down at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos at 10.pm.

The returnee Nigerians whose repatriation was facilitated with the help of the International Organisation for Migration and the Nigerian Embassy in Libya had been stranded in the country.

On hand to receive the returnees made up of 108 males, 135 females, eight children and 11 infants were officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the Nigerian Police, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and  the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).

Briefing newsmen shortly after their arrival, Director General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja represented by Mr. Suleiman Yakubu, the agency’s Zonal Coordinator for South-South said the federal and state governments have initiated series of programmes aimed at rehabilitating and reintegrating the returnees back into the society.