NEMA said the returnees were assisted back to the country through the special intervention of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
Nigeria has received a batch of 109 stranded citizens from Tripoli, Libya, the National Emergency Management Agency said on Tuesday.
NEMA said the returnees were assisted back to the country through the special intervention of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
The returnees arrived aboard Al Buraq Air Boeing 737-800 with registration number 5A-DMG, which touched down at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos.
The Lagos Territorial Office Coordinator for NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.
It said, “Receiving the Voluntary Assisted Returnees back in the country, the Director General of the Agency, Alhaji Mustapha Habib-Ahmed delivered the goodwill of the new administration to tackle the challenges facing the country and carry out all measures that would turn around the nation’s economy for positive development.
“Alhaji Habib-Ahmed also stated that the President is sending his promise that his administration will not leave the youths behind as a factor in the governance of the nation so as to incorporate their energy and technological skills which are the major impetus in aiding any progressive society in the world.
"The President would evolve a policy that youths and women will actively participate in the implementation of all policy.”
"The youths will be the driving force of all decisions in the present administration because of the importance that the leadership of this nation has placed on tapping the potential abound in the largest segment of the population," Habib-Ahmed was quoted as saying.
The returnees comprised 52 adult males, 46 adult females, two female children, four male children and five infants.
The flight landed at about 17.55 hours (5.55 pm).
The Director General was represented by Farinloye.
He urged the returnees to use the opportunity of their return to the country to be ambassadors of good tidings.
“The green pastures are here, let us tend the pastures to maturity so that benefits can be everlasting,” he said.
Agencies that collaborated to receive the returnees are the National Commission for Refugees, Migration and Internally Displaced Persons, Federal Ministry of Health, Port Health, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria and the Nigeria Police.