While welcoming the returnees in Kano, Dr. Nuradeen Abdullahi, NEMA Coordinator, made this known. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the returnees were met by the Agency in Kano. They were escorted by representatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which is situated in the Niger Republic. He claims that a voluntary repatriation program was used to bring the returnee’s home. According to him, the program is intended to help people in need who left their home country in search of better opportunities abroad but were unable to afford to come home after finding their travels to be fruitless.
The NEMA official reported that there were 23 children among the returns, as well as 144 men, 13 women, and 6 boys. The returnees come from many parts of the nation, he said, including Lagos, Katsina, Cross River, Kaduna, Bauchi, and Kano States. The returnees, he said, will go through a four-day program on how to become self-sufficient and get seed money to enable them to participate in productive activities. “We want you to act as ambassadors, warning other Nigerians about unauthorized immigration. No country is better than your own country, so you should avoid putting your life in jeopardy by moving around in search of greener pastures,” Abdullahi advised.
Repatriation program for those in need who had fled their country.
140 stranded Nigerians were also retrieved earlier in July. While welcoming the returnees in Kano, the NEMA Coordinator for the Kano Territorial Office, Dr. Nuradeen Abdullahi, confirmed this. He claimed that the International Organization for Migration (IOM) took care of transporting the returnees from Agadas to Kano in 3 luxurious buses. According to Abdullahi, the returnees were returned home as part of a voluntary repatriation program for those in need who had fled their country in search of better lives in different European Nations but were unable to afford to come home after their journey was unsuccessful.
There were 100 male adults, 30 female adults, and 10 kids among the returnees (6 female and 4 male). Clothing, food, toiletries, blankets, mosquito nets, pampers, and sanitary pads were supplied to each of the returnees. He then urged them to serve as advocates and ambassadors for spreading awareness of irregular migration. No country is better than Nigeria, so Nigerians shouldn’t risk their lives by moving abroad in search of ‘greener pastures’, Abdullahi stated.
I travelled to Libya in search of better lands.
Upon her return, Madam Aisha Lawal, a divorcee and mother of five from Kaduna State, said that she had taken one of her children to Libya in search of ‘greener pastures.’ She added, “I was a businesswoman before I left my husband. We are struggling and I have no funds to continue with my business therefore that was why I travelled to Libya”. Richard Odogwu, a different returnee from Lagos State, claimed that prior to his journey, he was employed by a corporation.
Odogwu explained why he wanted to go to Libya in pursuit of a better life: “My parents are dead, and I have to take care of my siblings,” he stated. NAN reports that between May and June, the organization took in a total of 227 stranded Nigerians from Agadas. NEMA, together with other organizations like the Nigeria Red Cross, SEMA, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and IDPs, as well as the DSS, accepted the returnees.
Nigeria working with UAE government to assist stranded Nigerians in Dubai.
On Sunday, the Nigerian government said that it is coordinating with UAE officials to help Nigerians stuck in Dubai. A recent viral video on social media featured ladies identifying themselves as Nigerians pleading with the government to help them and accusing the Nigerian embassy in Dubai of being unconcerned with their condition. Following the release of the video, Francisca Omayuli stated in a press release on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Nigerian Mission has been working hard to compile the information of the stranded Nigerians in order to issue Emergency Travel Certificates (ETC) to those who lack proper identification.
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I fear Nigeria my country I hope they are truly helping stranded Nigerians in Niger not fulanis that will later turn to bandits terrorizing the citizenry.
This is what it results to when you travel out without proper arrangement. People needs to clear away the thought of pursuing greener pasture outside the country when they don’t have enough fund to finance the travel. Am happy they are back safely though.
Kudos to NEMA, there are still a lot of Nigerians who are stucked in other countries. They have no means of survival and they are willing to come back to the country but without no aid. It is good we now have agencies in place who pool into the issues.
With what we are experiencing in our own country Nigeria, it is enough for us to source for a better place of survival. Some are fortunate to be in a better country why some are not lucky. It is well.
The desperation of Nigerians to leave the country at all costs is so alarming. Irrespective of security risks and getting stranded. This is what the government has caused. If your citizens are willing to risk it all to leave, that’s not relocation. These people are escaping. We are ina prison.
There are many Nigerian in other country who are not b able to survive well and ready to com home but with the lack of financial they are un able to return back home. It good for help those people stuck in Niger to return back home most people travel illegal there but now that things don’t work out well for them they are stuck
The returnees were brought back home through the implementation of a program of voluntary repatriation.
The individuals who have been allowed to return home should play the role of activists and ambassadors in the effort to raise awareness of undocumented migration.
If Nigeria gets better , there will definitely be no reason for the citizens of Nigeria to continue emigrating
If it through they rescue them from Niger,it’s a good news and all this illegal migration is still boil down to the bad economy situation in the economy because people can do anything to survive when things is too hard.
If everything is okay in Nigeria will anybody be thinking of leaving the country? The country is sick thank to our selfish leaders and made the country not conducive for survival.
The desperation of Nigerians to leave the country at all costs due to poverty. People want to survive that is why. Instead of dying oeut there NEMA should help them to reture
It is good we now have agencies that has been working hard to compile the information of the stranded Nigerians in order to issue Emergency Travel Certificates (ETC) to those who lack proper identification.
The goal of the initiative is to provide assistance to persons who were forced to leave their home country in quest of better prospects overseas but were unable to return because they lacked the financial means to do so after realizing their journey had been fruitless.
we ought to be aware that there is no nation on earth that is superior to our own, we ought to steer clear of putting our lives in danger by wandering the globe in search of more favorable conditions.
It’s a positive thing because the people who are returning will take part in a four-day program that will teach them how to become self-sufficient and provide them with seed money so that they can take part in constructive activities.
In a voluntary repatriation scheme, persons who had left their country in quest of better life in other European countries but were unable to pay to return home after their voyage had been unsuccessful were allowed to do so.
It is incumbent upon us to take on the roles of activists and ambassadors in the cause of raising awareness of irregular migration. Since there is no nation on earth that is superior to Nigeria, its citizens should not put their lives at jeopardy by leaving the country in quest of ‘greener pastures.’
A video that recently went viral on social media featured women who identified themselves as Nigerians pleading with the government to help them and accusing the Nigerian embassy in Dubai of being unconcerned with their condition. The video was posted by an individual who identified herself as a Nigerian.
When people don’t have enough money to finance their trip, they shouldn’t even entertain the idea of leaving the country in search of greener pastures. People need to get this idea out of their heads.
We have a responsibility to serve as activists and ambassadors for the cause of promoting awareness of unauthorized immigration. Nigerians shouldn’t risk their lives by leaving the country in search of “greener pastures” since no country on earth is greater to Nigeria.