A sum total of 14,036 Nigerians stranded in Libya, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ireland, France, Gambia, Austria, Poland, Morocco, and Liberia have now returned home.
The National Emergency Management Agency in a press statement issued earlier today disclosed that the returnees were brought back under the Assisted Voluntary Returnees Programme which began in April 2017, by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU).
Receiving the latest batch of returnees, about 137 of them from Libya on Thursday, NEMA Lagos Territorial Office, Alhaji Idris Muhammed, said:
“The analysis on the total number that has been brought back indicates that 465 males and 408 females amongst those brought back had psychosocial related needs. “Also, 454 males and 618 females are having various degree of medical needs.
