Tag: Returnees
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Shehu Sani blasts FG for charging Nigerian returnees
Former Senator from Kaduna, Shehu Sani has reacted as Nigerians returning home due to coronavirus pandemic are told to offset their two-week quarantine bill on arrival. The Nigerian government in a revised guideline asked returnees to pay for their two weeks stay at isolation centers. Before Friday, the returnees were only required to pay for…
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Rivers Govt moves to reintegrate Benin returnees
The Rivers State Government and the four Ogoni speaking Local Government Areas have taken concrete measure to address the needs of Nigerians of Ogoni extraction living in Benin Republic. The four Ogoni speaking Local Government Council Chairmen announced the partnership to address the challenges facing the Nigerians of Ogoni extraction living in Benin Republic on…
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Obaseki lauds Oba of Benin’s salary support for Libya returnees
Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has hailed the magnanimity of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewaure II, for placing some returnees from Libya on salary, noting that the gesture was a landmark effort in rehabilitating the returnees. The governor, in a statement, said that the gesture…
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4th batch of 465 Nigerian returnees arrive Port Harcourt – Official
The fourth batch of 465 Nigerian returnees from Libya have arrived Port Harcourt, Mr Martins Ejike, South-South Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. Ejike who received the returnees on Friday, told news that they arrived Port Harcourt International Airport at about 12.25 a.m. on board Max Air. Ejike told newsmen that the evacuation…
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Delta to rehabilitate 78 returnees from Libya
The Delta Government said on Tuesday that it was committed to rehabilitating the 78 returnees from Libya who are from the state. The state Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr Ernest Ogwezzy, said this during an interview with newsmen in Asaba. Ogwezzy said that the returnees arrived the state on Saturday and that the state government…
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How we were abducted, sold into slavery by fellow Nigerians in Libya – Returnees
Some fresh returnees from Libya have recounted their ordeals in the hands of fellow Nigerians who facilitated their sale to slavery in the troubled country. TheNewsGuru.com reports that over 1,295 Nigerians were repatriated International Organisation for Migration in conjunction with the European Union in November alone. Since the beginning of 2017, IOM-facilitated repatriation has brought…