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The International Organisation for Migration, IOM, and the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, person received 180 Nigerian migrants evacuated from Libya.
In a statement, the IOM revealed that the evacuation was portion of efforts to code irregular migration and enactment susceptible returnees.
The UN bureau noted that the returnees had been provided with wellness screening, counselling, and different contiguous assistance portion eligible beneficiaries would person reintegration enactment to assistance them rebuild their lives.
The returnees were received astatine the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport successful Lagos.
Addressing newsmen connected Tuesday, the Head of Lagos Sub-Office of NEMA, Mr Ali Ibrahim, said much than 50 of the returnees came from detention centres successful Libya.
He explained that the radical see 108 big females, 45 big males, 17 children, 12 infants, and 2 unaccompanied minors.
“So this is an ongoing process connected a play basis. In summation to the accomplishment connected a charter flight, we besides person radical arriving connected a commercialized formation connected a regular ground astatine antithetic points of entranceway successful Nigeria, including Abuja,” Ibrahim said.
Mr Ibrahim added that the returnees would beryllium profiled by the Nigerian Immigration Service earlier being reintegrated into nine done enactment programmes.
He noted that since the inception of t...
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