New Set of 128 Nigerian deportees arrive from Libya

Yesterday, at about 5.35p.m the latest set of 128 Nigerians deported from Libya arrived in Lagos at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) aboard a chartered Airbus A320 Afriqiyah aircraft with registration number 5A-ONA.

The deportees, comprising 126 male, two female, were flown back into the waiting hands of officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the Police.

Also on ground were officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). The two females and four male deportees had medical cases.