Back to square one: Nigerian migrants return home from Libya

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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Over 200 Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya have been returned home

More than 200 Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya have been returned to their home country, Nigerian officials said. According to CNN, the 242 migrants landed at Lagos airport on a Libyan Airlines flight at around 9:00 pm local time (3:00pm ET) on Tuesday. Among them were women carrying children and at least one man in […]

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