The deportation of Nigerians from Libya continued as another batch of 258 arrived the country on Thursday aboard a chartered Airbus A330-200 with registration mark 5A-LAT operated by Libya Airlines.
The aircraft landed about 9:43 p.m. at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The returnees, who included four children and one infant, were made up of of 233 males, 25 females.
The repatriation of the Nigerians as in the case of the previous ones was facilitated by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the Nigerian embassy in Libya.
The officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the National Agency for the Protection of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) along the Police received the deportees at the Hajj Camp area of the airport.
