The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday received another batch of 143 stranded Nigerians from Libya at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Farinloye said that the stranded Nigerians arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 3:18 p.m with Boeing 737-800 Al Buraq Air with registration number 5A-DMG. He said that the returnees were brought back to the country by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) through a voluntary repatriation programme. ” We advised the returnees on the need to realise that there’s no country better than Nigeria. He said that the returnees were received by NEMA, along with other sister agencies such as: Immigration Service, Refugee Commission, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Nigerian Police.

Source: Libya Today July 19, 2022 17:04 UTC