The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Wednesday, received 158 stranded Nigerians including 105 females, from Libya.
The returnees were voluntarily repatriated to Nigeria by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
They arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at 7.47pm aboard Al Buraq Airline Boeing 737-800 with registration number 5A-DMG from Libya.
The 158 returnees included 86 female adults, 42 male adults with three medical cases, six female children, 13 female infants, three male children, and eight male infants.
According to the Southwest Zonal Coordinator for NEMA, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, the returnees were received at the Cargo Wing of the Airport having passed through screening with Nigeria Immigration Services.
He emphasised that they would be kept for seven days in a transit for isolation period during which training and other medical processes would be conducted.
The NEMA coordinator also commended the IOM assisting several Nigerians back to the country since 2012 in a special programme sponsored by the European Union for young Nigerians who got stuck in Libya in their thirst for greener pastures.
Farinloye, however, cited that since 2012 till date about 19,000 Nigerians have been brought back to the country from Libya.
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