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258 Nigerians have returned home from Libya on Thursday night with the help of the United Nations migration agency International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

This is the biggest voluntary repatriation of Nigerians from Libya after the return of 253 migrants in April.

233 males, 25 females including five children disembarked from the chartered Libyan airline Airbus A333-200 with registration number 5A LAT at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported.

Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of National Agency for the Protection of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) said they were looking out for trafficked people during the profiling of the returnees.

In early April, IOM documented reports of slave markets and kidnapping rings on migrant routes in Libya run by traffickers to buy and sell West African migrants.

The reports indicated that with the support of Ghanaians and Nigerians who work for traffickers, sub-Saharan migrants were being sold and bought by Libyans.

All the surviving migrants spoken to by IOM gave similar accounts.

The north African country has become a transit zone for thousands of migrants who are keen to escape poverty and war to Europe.

Migrant numbers from Libya to Italy have soared dramatically in 2017 with more than 550 deaths recorded in the Mediterranean this year.

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No fewer than 258 more Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived the country on Thursday aboard a chartered Airbus A330-200 with registration mark 5A-LAT operated by Libya Airlines.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the aircraft landed about 9:43 p.m. at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

The returnees, who included four children and one infant, were made up of of 233 males, 25 females.

Their return was facilitated by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the Nigerian embassy in Libya.

They were received at the Hajj Camp area of the airport by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the National Agency for the Protection of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the Police.

Addressing journalists, Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of NAPTIP, said the agency was particularly interested in trafficked persons.

After the profiling have been done, for those that have been trafficked, we will take them away to our shelters, she said.

According to her, the agency is working with the international community to clamp down on the trafficking syndicate.

They are doing their investigation and very soon we will be able to come out with effective results, she said.

Also, Onimode Bandele, Director, Search and Rescue, NEMA, said some of the returnees had medical issues.

He said some of them were suffering from depression and malnutrition, while one person sustained gun injury. (NAN)

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