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About 263 stranded Nigerians person voluntarily returned to the country, arriving successful Kano connected Thursday aboard 2 Sky Mali flights from Agadez successful the Republic of Niger.
The returnees were reported to person touched down astatine the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport successful 2 batches.
Represented by the Commission’s Kano State Coordinator, Mrs Lubah Liman, the Federal Commissioner of NCFRMI, Aliyu Tijani, explained that the cognition formed portion of ongoing efforts to guarantee the harmless and dignified instrumentality of Nigerians stranded abroad.
The archetypal formation arrived astatine astir 12:50 p.m. with 116 passengers, portion the 2nd landed astatine astir 4:35 p.m. with 147 persons, the bulk being young men, alongside a fewer women and children.
To guarantee the harmless instrumentality of those affected, the workout was facilitated nether the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programme of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), successful collaboration with the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI).
On arrival, the returnees were taken to the Nigerian Immigration Service Training School successful Kano for documentation and profiling, with the workout emphasising that the repatriation was strictly vo...
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