The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received another batch of 160 stranded Nigerians from Libya. Alhaji Idris Muhammed, Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, confirmed the development to newsmen on Friday in Lagos. Muhammed said the Nigerians arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, at 7.50pm on Thursday aboard […]
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The Netherlands announced Wednesday it was prepared to welcome some of the 32 migrants waiting to disembark from a Dutch-flagged vessel in the Mediterranean, if other countries did the same. “The Netherlands has indicated a readiness to possibly take in a proportional number of migrants who are on board Sea-Watch 3, on condition that other […]
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About 2,051 Nigerians, who returned from Libya, have engaged in learning new trades between April 2017 and August 2018, the International Organisation for Migration has said. The United Nations agency said 1,130 men and 921 women participated in business training in Lagos, Edo, Nassarawa, Kano and Kaduna states, where they learnt types of business they […]
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The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, says that 116 of the Nigerian migrants trapped in Libya slave camps would be repatriated home soon. Dabiri-Erewa said this in a statement by her media aide, Abdur-Rahman Balogun on Sunday in Abuja. She said that the Federal Government and […]
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Renowned televangelist and Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre, Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, yesterday, faulted the Federal Government’s claim that those perpetrating killings in some Northern states are from Libya. Speaking in Osogbo at a programme organised by the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, in Osun State, Pastor Ashimolowo said perpetrators of the killings could […]
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday received 165 Nigerians who voluntarily returned from Libya. The returnees arrived aboard a chartered flight operated by Buraq Airline with registration number 5A-DMG. The aircraft landed at 9:45 p.m. at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The returnees included 68 female adults, six […]
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The second batch of 487 Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived Port Harcourt International Airport at about 10.43 p.m. on Monday in Max Air. On Friday, the Federal Government announced the establishment of a reception centre in Port Harcourt for 5,037 Nigerians being evacuated from Libya. The returnees were received by officials of National Emergency Management […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has set up a 17-man fact-finding mission to bring back Nigerians trapped in Libya. The team may also open talks with Libyan authorities on how to stop the exodus of Nigerians to the Arab country. The panel has 38 days to evacuate all Nigerians trapped in Libya. The team, which will leave […]
Read More The United Nations began bringing African refugees to Italy from Libya on Friday, evacuating them from detention centres whose conditions have been condemned by humanitarian groups as inhumane. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have fled conflict or poverty at home and are now trapped in Libya, where they had hoped to pay people smugglers for […]
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The UN refugee agency is to evacuate thousands of vulnerable refugees from Libya next year, its country representative said on Tuesday. “In 2018, we will try to send between 5,000 and 10,000 of the most vulnerable refugees to third countries,” Roberto Mignone said. “We can’t give an exact number as it will depend on how […]
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The European Union and African Union say at least 3,100 migrants who were stranded in Libya have been returned to their home countries in the past two weeks. A new task force that also includes the United Nations aims to repatriate another 15,000 migrants from Libya by February. The effort comes after recent footage showing […]
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When Bright stepped off the plane from Libya and heard that his home state in southern Nigeria had begun a rehabilitation programme for returned migrants, he thought it was another scam. “So many people cheated us in the past few months,” he told AFP on the tarmac at Lagos airport, where he arrived earlier this […]
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