The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has on Friday received another batch of 168 stranded Nigerians from Libya, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
The Acting NEMA Coordinator, LagosIbrahim Farinloye said the returnees arrived at the airport at 5:42 am after a 12-hour flight aboard Al Buraq Airline flight number UZ289/190.
Farinloye stated that 38 out of the returnees were adult females, five female children and 109 were adult males, six male children and 10 infants.
According to the coordinator, this batch totals the number of returnees from Libya between April 2017 to date to 13,884 with 8,096 males and 5,788 females.
"This has brought the total number of returnees brought to Nigeria from 16 countries to 15,731 since April 2017 to date," he explained.
He added that "Nigeria returnees from the Niger Republic stood at 1,043 males and 556 females; Morocco male 42, female 37; Liberia male eight and female four," "Burkina Faso male six, female 18, France male three, female one, while Ireland had only one female, but countries like Poland, Austria, Gambia, Mauritania, Ethiopia had one male each assisted back."
"Chad had one male, two females and Cote D’ivoire had only two females brought back within the period," Farinloye said.
"Estimated, adults males are 54 per cent, 37 per cent are for female, while male and female minors stood at four per cent each."