The International Organisation for Migration, IOM says it has repatriated 155 Nigerian irregular migrants stranded across various parts of Libya.
 
The IOM announced this this Wednesday in Lagos saying they collaborated with the federal government to repatriate the returnees who arrived at the Cargo Wing of Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos,on Tuesday evening.
 
According to the IOM, 125 of the 155 returnees, were females, 22 were males and eight were infants.
 
Also, officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Port Health Service, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons and Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria were present at the airport to receive the returnees.
 

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