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The Federal Government has repatriated 158 irregular Nigerian migrants from Libya.

Nigeria’s Charge’d’ Affaires to Libya, Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed, made this known in a statement on Wednesday. Mohammed said the group of evacuees comprised of 77 males, 45 females, 26 children as well as 10 infants.

The envoy explained that of the total number, 26 males who were arrested from the ongoing raid of undocumented foreigners in Libya were released from Abu-Salim Detention Centre in Tripoli.

According to him, so far, 1,776 stranded Nigerians were returned home.
Mohammed said that the repatriation was a collaborative efforts of the mission and the Libyan authorities.

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