Nigerian returnees from Libya swell as 258 more arrive

Eight days after 149 Nigerians deliberately

come back from Libya, another group of 258 on

Tuesday returned home from the North

African nation where they had been stranded

enroute Europe.

Newsmen report that the returnees were

brought back on board a Libyan Carriers air ship

with Enlistment Number 5A-LAU.

The Airbus 330-200 airplane touched down at

the Freight Wing of the Murtala Muhammed

Worldwide Airplane terminal, Lagos at around 8.45pm.

The returnees, who were helped back to

Nigeria by the Global Association for

Relocation (IOM),

included 238 female grown-ups, seven adolescent

young ladies and one newborn child, while the male were seven

grown-ups, two high school young men and three child young men.

They were gotten by the Executive General of

the National Crisis Administration Organization

(NEMA), Alhaji Mustapha Maihajja, spoke to

by the South West Zonal facilitator of the

organization, Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu .

Likewise on ground to welcome the returnees back

home were authorities of the Edo State

Government, the Nigerian Movement Administration

(NIS) , the National Office for the Restriction

of Trafficking in People (NAPTIP), the Government

Air terminals Expert of Nigeria (FAAN) and the

Police.

Newsmen report that 149 Nigerians had on

Nov. 6 came back from Libya bringing the aggregate of

returnees who arrived the nation inside the

most recent five weeks to 975.