All the returnees will be temporarily camped at a Reception Centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, pending formal transfer to their states.
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They arrived at about 4.55pm.
Ibrahim Farinloye, the spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency, South-West Zone, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Lagos.
The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Mustapha Maihajja, gave the assurance while receiving a new set of 157 Nigerians who arrived from the North African country on Wednesday
Speaking at Idia College, in Benin, the venue where the returnees converged to collect the stipends, the Chairman of the Edo State Task force Against Human trafficking, Prof. Yinka Omorogbe, said the stipends would be paid for three months.
Okah-Donli made this known while defending the agency’s 2018 budget before the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters on Tuesday
Gunmen chased the car of Mayor Mohamed Eshtewi after he left Misrata airport following his arrival on a plane from Turkey, a security official said, adding it was unclear who was behind it.
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said in a statement on Friday that Buhari made his position known at a meeting with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Their return was facilitated by the International Organisation for Migration and the European Union
He said: “There are a lot of rumors that Tripoli is not safe. It is about time that the Russian embassy starts to practice from Tripoli.”
While several ministers at the November 30 meeting of the OPEC suggested the two nations had joined the output-curbing deal, both are working to add to their peak production from 2018.
The local media said the repatriated Moroccans landed in Casablanca after they were transported by the Moroccan national carrier, Royal Air Maroc, from Tunisia.
“The Libyan Foreign Ministry, through its embassy in Washington, has begun to take measures to lift Libya from the list of countries and to ease the restrictions on Libyan citizens,” the ministry said in a statement.
In interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Friday, the politicians and others described the situation as unfortunate and urged actions to discourage the trend.
“Camps in the other regions are known but inaccessible camps due to the challenges of going into these camps as a communication chain is required before we can reach them.”
“We have visited the detention camps and also collaborated with the International Organisation for Migration to repatriate migrants weekly.
The Edo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Yinka Omorogbe, told newsmen in Benin that out of the number, 58 were girls, two infants and 215 boys
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that no fewer than 144 Nigerians voluntarily returned home aboard a chartered Buraq Airlines aircraft with registration number 5A-DMG
The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement signed by the Spokesperson, Tiwatope Elias-Fatiile, on Tuesday, said the country’s embassy in Libya had been visiting detention camps to identify Nigerians for registration
The nine-member court, with two liberal justices dissenting, granted his administration’s request to lift two injunctions imposed by lower courts that had partially blocked the ban, which is the third version of a contentious policy that Trump first sought to implement a week after taking office in January