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NEMA Receives 168 Nigerian Returnees From Libya

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Another batch of 168 Nigerian returnees from Libya were received by the National Emergency Management Agency, on Friday.

The returnees were received by the Acting Coordinator, NEMA Lagos Territorial Office, Ibrahim Farinloye, on behalf of the Director-General of NEMA at the cargo wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.

The returnees arrived in Nigeria on a chartered Al Buraq airline with flight number UZ289/190 at 5:42 a.m after 12 hours delay.

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According to Farinloye, thirty-eight adults, five female children were returned with 109 adult males, six male children and 10 infants, among others.

Farinloye further stated that with the new batch of returnees from Libya, the total number of returnees from April 2017 to date are 8,096 males and 5,788 females.

“This has brought the total number of returnees brought to Nigeria from 16 countries to 15,731 since April 2017 to date.”

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Farinloye, while quoting the summary of the special EU-IOM and Federal Government intervention from 2017 to October 2019, said that Libya had the highest number of returnees with 8,096 males and 5,788 females.

“Nigeria returnees from Niger Republic stood at 1,043 males and 556 females; Morocco male 42, female 37; Liberia male eight and female four.”

“Burkina Faso male six, female 18, France male three, female one, while Ireland had only one female, but countries like Polad, Austria, Gambia, Mauritania, Ethiopia had one male each assisted back.”

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“Chad had one male, two females and Cote D’ivoire had only two females brought back within the period”.

“Estimatedly, adults males are 54 per cent, 37 per cent are for female, while male and female minors stood at four per cent each.”