The National Emergency Management Agency has received 158 Nigerian returnees from Libya at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.

Director-General of the agency, Mustapha Habib, confirmed the development in an interview on Tuesday in Lagos. He said the returnees were received through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Represented by the Acting Coordinator of the Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, the D-G said the returnees arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 5:15 p.m. with Al Buraq Air boeing 737-800 with registration number 5A-DMG.

He said that the returnees were made of 83 male adults, 49 female adults, six male and seven female children, with 13 infants (eight male and five female).

He said that four of the returnees were brought back with various degrees of health challenges.

The returnees were brought back to the country by the International Organisation for Migration through a voluntary repatriation programme for distressed persons.

Mr Habib assured that the federal government was conscious of the aspirations of the youth and was providing an enabling environment to achieve their full potential.

The returnees were received by NEMA, Immigration Service, National Refugee Commission, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, International Organisation for Migration, Migration and Internally displaced Persons, NAPTIP and the Nigeria Police.

(NAN)