The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), in partnership with the Federal Government, has repatriated 155 Nigerian irregular migrants stranded across different parts of Libya.
The IOM disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Lagos.
The returnees arrived at the Cargo Wing of Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos, in the late hours of Tuesday on board an Al Buraq Air Boeing 737-800 with registration number 5A-DMG.
See Also: 117 Stranded Nigerians Evacuated From Libya – FG
The statement added that among the 155 returnees, 125 were females, 22 males, and eight infants.
IOM stated that officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, Port Health Service, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, and Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria were at the airport to receive the returnees.
(NAN)
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