Alhaji Idris Muhammed, Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, who was represented by Ibrahim Farinloye, Public Information Officer, said the returnees arrived the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport about 1.10 a.m. on Friday.
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The International Organisation for Migration in Libya on Thursday said a shipwreck is believed to have taken place in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, and dozens feared dead,
The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Mission in Tripoli, Libya to issue emergency travel documents to stranded Nigerians to enable them return home.
The National Emergency Management Agency has received another batch of 163 Nigerian returnees who had been stranded in Libya, but assisted to come back home.
The UNHCR said in a statement that the 260 people have been relocated to a “Gathering and Departure Facility’’ in the capital Tripoli, pending evacuation to an unnamed country.
The Senate made the call, following the adoption of a motion on the death of the nine Nigerian migrants in Libya.
‘‘We will do our best to help Libya stabilise,” the President told the Head of Libya’s Government of National Accord, Fayez Al-Sarraj, at a bilateral meeting on the margins of the African Union Summit in Niamey, Niger Republic on Sunday.
Abdur-Rahman Balogun, the media aide to the CEO of the commission, made this known in a statement on Thursday.
According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, the President described as “inhuman, wicked and callous” such an attack on “helpless and defenceless people”.
The IOM Chief of Mission in Nigeria, Franz Celestin, who confirmed the development in a statement on Wednesday, however, did not disclose the number of Nigerians killed in the attack.
The National Emergency Management Agency on Friday said a total of 14,036 Nigerians have voluntarily returned home under the Assisted Voluntary Returnees Programme which began in April 2017.
Libya’s coastguard rescued a total of 124 migrants after their boats broke down during Europe-bound journeys, the country’s navy said on Wednesday.
The National Emergency Management Agency has received another batch of 195 stranded Nigerians from Libya.
Pope Francis on Wednesday offered a ride on his popemobile to eight children of migrants who recently arrived in Italy from war-torn Libya.
Libya’s deadlocked warring parties must return to the negotiating table to prevent further displacement and terrorism, the United Nations envoy for Libya, Ghassan Salame, said on Monday.
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons on Wednesday said that it would need more support in the rehabilitation and reintegration of migrant returnees from Libya and other countries.
Pope Francis on Sunday called for the evacuation of refugees held in detention camps in Libya as fighting there escalates.
President Idris Deby Itno of Chad on Saturday in N’Djamena, advocated for the relocation of the Secretariat of the Community of Sahel Saharan States away from Libya.
The National Emergency Management Agency says 12,974 Nigerians have voluntarily returned from Libya in two years.
The National Emergency Management Agency has received another batch of 180 stranded Nigerians from Libya.