April 11, (THEWILL) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received 104 stranded Nigerians from N’Djamena, Chad Republic, at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano.
Receiving the stranded returnees on Tuesday, in Kano, the Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office of the Agency, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, said they arrived at the airport at about 2:15 pm.
Represented by Suleiman Sa’ad-Abubakar, Head of Human Resources, NEMA Kano, Abdullahi said the returnees comprising 34 males, 18 females and 52 children, who hailed from Kano, Katsina, Borno, Akwa Ibom and Yobe, were transported to Nigeria by SKY MALI Airlines, operated by Ethiopian Airline B737-500 with registration number UR-CQX.
“The returnees were brought back under the care of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) from N’Djamena through a voluntary repatriation programme.
“The programme is for the distressed, who had left the country to seek greener pasture in European countries and could not afford to return when their journey became frustrated,” he said, adding that the government will train the returnees under skill acquisition programme to enable them to learn trades and become self-reliant to fast track their integration into the society.
The Agency has received 444 stranded Nigerians from Niamey, Niger Republic between February and April 2023.
While urging them to be law-abiding, Abdullahi advised Nigerians to shun illegal migration and avoid endangering their lives by travelling to seek greener pastures elsewhere.
