The returnees arrived in a chartered Novelle Air flight at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos at around 6:15 and said they were excited to be home.
There were also three medical cases among the returnees who were treated by IOM doctors and Port Health officials.
The National Emergency Management Agency, Deputy Director in charge of Search and Rescue, Dr. Bandele Onimode, who received the returnees on behalf of NEMA, disclosed that 654 Nigerians had been assisted back home this year while 867 were repatriated in 2016.
He said the agency was in touch with state governments of the returnees to assist in their rehabilitation process.
A spokesperson for IOM Nigeria, Julia Burpee, who came in from the organisation’s head office in Maiduguri, with some officials of the United Nations Organisation, said more than 7,000 Nigerians had been supported since 2002.
She said IOM would continue to work with its partners in Nigeria to assist stranded Nigerians all over the world.
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*This is about the fourth deportation from Libya (of all places) since this year!..HABA!!!
Hmmmmm,libya kwa,wetin dem dey do their. shame to our govt that is frustrating it's citizens out.
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Nobody's frustrating anybody, there's no war in Nigeria. They choose to go there and I believe they have learned their lesson in a hard way.
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Why are they ashamed? Lol.
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ReplyDeleteHow many Nigerians are in Libya and why do they keep going there?
ReplyDeleteIs this there deportation uniform?
ReplyDeleteSame question came to my mind o.
DeleteWelcome back home
ReplyDeleteAs in ehnnn... Which kind hustle persin wan go hustle for that country?
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ReplyDeleteStella,they are going to Libya so they could enter Europe.
ReplyDelete80% of them are from Edo State and Oyo State, going to Europe for prostitution. I'm not against anybody travelling but go through the right channel and stop the backdoor trip.
ReplyDeleteYou need to listen to what they say on international TV about the state of their country.
Telling the world how boko Haram killed their entire family. I don't know that boko Haram was killing in Benin and Ibadan untill I watched these set of Nigerians on a cable TV.
Libya 🇱🇾 of all countries na wao my people de fall my hand
ReplyDeleteWelcome back to area na.......we gotta make our country great again......
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