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Nigerian embassy official in Tripoli says they are happy to be returning to their home country.
Libya has returned 161 Nigerians to their country as part of a United Nations-backed voluntary repatriation scheme amid a spike in irregular migration in North Africa.
Reports indicate that the group, about half of whom were women and also included six children, was assisted at an airport in Tripoli by the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) and arrived in Lagos on Monday night.
Libyan and Nigerian representatives met the people before their departure, which is one of…
