NEMA receives 298 Nigerians freed from Libyan prisons
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received a batch of 298 Nigerians who were stranded in Libyan prisons.
The agency said this in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos.
The statement said the returnees spent varying periods at various detention camps in the northern African country.
They were repatriated back to the country in two separate chartered flights; the first had 161 returnees on August 21, and the second came on Monday with 137 returnees.
NEMA said the second batch of returnees arrived on board an Al Buraq Air Boeing 737-800 with registration number 5A-DMG at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Cargo Wing, Ikeja, at about 5:38 p.m. on Monday.
The returnees comprised 119 mostly pregnant females and 170 males with three female children, three male children, and three infants.
NEMA revealed that the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), Port Health Service, and National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRM) also received the returnees.
(NAN)
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