NEMA receives 95 stranded Nigerians from Libya

The National Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday received 95 Nigerians stranded from Libya at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.

Habib Mustapha, the director general of NEMA who was represented by the acting coordinator of the Lagos territorial office of NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the development to newsmen in the state.

He said that the returnees were brought back to the country by the international organisation for migration through voluntary repatriation programme for the distressed who had left the country to seek greener pastures in various European country but could not afford to return when their journey became frustrated.

Farinloye said that the returnees are 60 male adults, 29 female adults, three male and one female teenager, with two infants.

He said that among the returnees were two males who had various degrees of health-related issues