The United Nations International Office on Migration (IOM), and NEMA were among the agencies on ground to receive the returnees.
A total of 298 stranded Nigerians have been repatriated directly from Libyan prisons back to Nigeria in two separate chartered flights within a week.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) which made this known on Monday said that the first chartered flight returned with 161 returnees on August 21, while the second chartered flight with 137 returnees arrived in Nigeria on Monday.
The returnees who had spent varying periods in various detention camps in the troubled Northern African country complained of bitter experiences which they claimed they would never pray for their enemies to pass through.
Based on the profile of the returnees, 119 were adult females, most of whom are pregnant. Others are; three female children and two female infants, while 170 of the returnees are adult males, three male children and one male infant making it a total of 298 who were brought back to the country.
The returnees were brought aboard Al Buraq Air Boeing 737-800 with registration number 5A-DMG arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Ikeja at about 1738 hours on Monday.
The United Nations International Office on Migration (IOM), and NEMA were among the agencies on ground to receive the returnees.
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