The Federal Government has repatriated no fewer than 150 stranded Nigerians from Niamey, Niger Republic.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, stated this while receiving the returnees at the Aminu Kano International Airport on Monday evening.
She said the exercise was conducted in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration and the Economic Community of West African States.
According to her, the returnees were brought back to Kano, under the care of the IOM and ECOWAS from Niger Republic.
Represented by the Director of Humanitarian Services of the Ministry, Alhaji Grema Ali, the minister explained that the programme was meant for the distressed Nigerians, who had left the country to seek greener pastures in various European countries, and could not afford to return when their journey became frustrated.
Recounting their ordeals, one of those repatriated, Amina Aliyu from Kano State said she traveled to Niger with her three kids and sister Zara’u Aliyu, to seek for greener pastures.
