The National Emergency Management Agency, on Wednesday, received 95 Nigerians stranded in Libya at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Habib Mustapha, Director-General of NEMA, who was represented by the acting Coordinator of the Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria.
Farinloye said that the stranded Nigerians arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Tuesday night, at about 8:18 pm with Al Buraq Airline, number UZ189/16/5A- DMG-MJI AD15:50.
He said that the returnees were brought back to the country by the International Organisation for Migration through voluntary repatriation programme for the distressed who had left the country to seek greener pastures in various European country but could not afford to return when their journey became frustrated.
Farinloye said that the returnees compromised of 60 male adults, 29 female adults, three male and one female teenager, with two infants (one male and one female).
According to him, among the returnees are two males who had various degrees of health-related issues.
He implored the returnees to turn a new leaf by looking inward to better their lives, saying that the Federal Government and other stakeholders, would provide an enabling environment for them to achieve their potentials.
He said that the pseudo greener pastures that many thought abound in foreign countries did not exist, saying that they should enlighten others who still contemplate to travel out of the country.
Farinloye said that the Port Health Unit of the Federal Ministry of Health, the National Commission for Resilience, Migration and IDPs, and the Nigerian Immigration Services received the returnees at the airport
(NAN).
