4 pregnant women, 140 others arrive from Libya

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), in the late hours of Thursday, received 144 returnees from Libya assisted home by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union.
The South West Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Alh Suleiman Yakubu received the returnees on behalf of Federal Government with other agencies like the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP), among others in attendance. The returnees arrived on an Airbus 320 aircraft operated by VIA airways with registration number LZ-MDI which landed at the Cargo wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA). The figures show that there were 54 adult females and seven female children including four pregnant women and 79 adult males including four male children. And for the first time since the repatriation exercise commenced, the Libyan returnees were provided with phone loaded with airtime to facilitate reintegration and contact with families and relations. The gesture was extended by Airtel Nigeria in conjunction with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Relations.  Yesterday's arrival was the first in 2018 facilitated by IOM which repatriated over 6,800 Nigerians stranded  in Libya in 2017.