No fewer than 108 Nigerians who have been stranded in Tripoli, Libya, have been received by the National Emergency Management Agency.
This is the sixth evacuation exercise the federal government is conducting this year, with almost 5,000 Nigerians successfully evacuated from Libya.
Before the parliament session, Mr Bashagha tried to delegate his powers to his deputy.
Tunisia is now considered the most important transit country for migrants to Italy, surpassing war-torn Libya.
The victims were migrants from Pakistan, Syria, Tunisia, and Egypt.
The threat posed by the Janjaweed was always very evident — even to the uninitiated.
As a transit country, thousands of Nigerian migrants have remained trapped in different parts of Libya after failed attempts to proceed to their destination.
The past month has seen a sharp increase in migrant boats trying to reach the Italian coast from Tunisia, leading to a spike in drowning accidents.
“We evacuated almost 4,000 stranded Nigerians from Libya in 2022, and we hope to surpass that number this year.”
The police in Osun have arrested one Adebisi Muideen for attempting to traffic four teenage girls from Osun to Kano state en route to Tripoli in Libya.
