A new set of 175 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya on Tuesday aboard a chartered Nouvelair aircraft with registration number TS-INA. The aircraft landed at 7.50 p.m. at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.


The returnees were made up of 34 males, 122 females, 10 children and nine infants.

They were brought back by the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, and the Nigerian Embassy in Libya.

The returnees were received at the Hajj Camp area of the airport by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, and the Police.

Also on ground to receive them were officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN.