The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) received 457 stranded Nigerians in Niger Republic and India on Friday.
266 returnees from Niger Republic were received at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, while 191 returnees from India were received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Their repatriation came barely a few days after the agency NEMA received 105 stranded Nigerians from Chad.
Receiving the Niger returnees, the Director General of NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed Habib, said they were brought back to Kano under the care of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) from Niamey, Niger Republic, through a voluntary repatriation program.
“130 returnees arrived Thursday night at about 11 pm while 136 arrived on Friday at about 4 am, noting that there were 144 males, 56 females, and 66 children.
“The programme is meant for distressed Nigerians who had left the country to seek greener pastures in various European countries and could not afford to return when their journey became frustrated.”
Represented by NEMA’s Coordinator in Kano, Dr. Nuradeen Abdullahi, the DG explained that the returnees would undergo a four-day training on how to achieve self-sustainability and be provided with seed capital to enable them to engage in productive activities to be self-reliant.
Also, the media officer, NEMA, Manzo Ezekiel said the returnees from India arrived in Nigeria in an Ethiopian Airline charted flight at 4:40 pm.
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