NEMA, IOM receive 145 Nigerian returnees from Libya in Lagos

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, successful concern with the International Organization for Migration, IOM, has received 145 Nigerian returnees evacuated from Benghazi, Libya.

The evacuees arrived astatine the Murtala Muhammed International Airport astatine astir 8:27 p.m. aboard an Al Buraq Airlines formation nether the Assisted Voluntary Return programme.

This was disclosed successful a connection issued successful Lagos by the Head of NEMA’s Lagos Operations Office, Mohammed Olatunde.

According to him, the returnees comprised 122 adults; 46 males and 76 females; arsenic good arsenic 29 children, including 13 boys and 16 girls. The radical besides included 27 infants, made up of 17 males and 10 females.

Olatunde explained that officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service...