The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said it has received another batch of 149 stranded Nigerians from Libya brought by IOM. The Returnees, NEMA said, arrived Nigeria via Buraq Airlines Boeing 737-8000 with registration number 5A-DMG at about 1:20 a. m on Friday at the Cargo Wing of the MMIA, Ikeja The profile of the […]
A batch of 180 Nigerians will today touchdown at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos from Libya. It is also slated that a batch of Nigerians would be deported from Germany early next week. A source close to Aviation Security (AVSEC), a department under the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) made this known […]
Nigeria is starting flights to evacuate thousands of its citizens from Libya which will continue until all those wanting to return home have done so, its foreign minister said on Saturday. Nigerians have recently been the largest national group among African migrants traveling to Libya and trying to cross from there to Italy by sea. […]
About 4,281 Nigerians were repatriated through various countries in Europe, the US and even some African countries through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos in the first half of 2017. Also, a total number of 691,934 travellers departed through the airport while another 560,988 travellers arrived the country within the period under review. A […]
About 171 Nigerians who were stranded in Libya voluntarily returned to Nigeria yesterday. They heaved a sigh of relief when the aircraft that brought them landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Tuesday evening. The returnees comprised of 112 females and 59 males; the females included 109 adults, two children and […]
