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The federal government on Tuesday in Abuja said it is set to evacuate another set of Nigerian immigrants from Libya in February.
This was disclosed by Bandele Onimode, who is the deputy director for search and rescue at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), when he led a delegation from NEMA to visit Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs and Diaspora.
The delegation had come to shed light on the efforts of the agency in rescue operations in Libya and other countries of the world and what the federal government has been doing to secure the lives of Diaspora Nigerians trapped on transit.
According to him, the federal government has been doing a lot to help Nigerian citizens wherever they are having problems not just in Libya alone.
It is a well known fact that Nigerians do cross the desert to Europe through Niger Republic, Mali, and Sudan and in the process some are tired, stranded and trapped, he said, adding that our Nigerian missions abroad never leave them alone they always come to their rescue, as I am talking to you there are still some of them that are stranded in Niger and we are working on that.
He said the federal government had already evacuated about 1000 voluntary returnees from Libya between 2015 and 2016.
The NEMA boss added that 325 returnees were evacuated in May 2015, while 669 returnees were evacuated four times in 2016.
He explained that 175, 160, 172, 162 returnees were evacuated from Libya, in August, October, and December 2016 respectively.
According to him, most of the returnees were from Delta and Edo, ranges between the ages of 16 and 22, there are cases of infants being accompanied by their mothers.
He said that there were also cases of injured that were evacuated and returned to the country, adding that such people were properly profiled by the Nigerian Immigration service.
He said that the agency was working with other sister agencies which include the DSS, the police, FAAN, and NAPTIP to sort out the cases of victim of trafficking.
He explained that the International office on Migration (IOM ), in conjunction with Libya, always helped in sorting out of the returnees.
They are different from deportees, they are organized and willing returnees that are kept by IOM before being returned in collaboration with the Federal Government to the country, he Onimode further stressed.
He said that the agency was going to set up an assessment team to ensure that Nigerians that are set to be arrested in those countries are sorted and brought back to home.
Dabiri-Erewa called on Nigerians especially parents to warn their children and wards against embarking on illegal migration through Libya and the desert to the UK.
The issue of migration through Libya, Morocco is very dangerous for now and we advise Nigerians to desist from such dangerous adventure, because a lot of times a lot of these black migrants are dumped into the sea, she asserted.
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On December 19, 2016, the Tunisian extremist Anis Amri drove a truck into a Christmas market in the German capital, killing 12. Police shot him dead four days later near Milan, Italy. Soon after, ISIS released a selfie-video he prerecorded from a Berlin bridge claiming he was acting on its behalf. Investigative files obtained by CNN showed he was part of an ISIS recruitment network inside Germany.
Overnight on January 18-19, two B-2 bombers making a 30-hour round trip from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, dropped 100 precision munitions on the camps, killing more than 80 ISIS fighters, according to initial Pentagon estimates.
In a news conference on January 19, outgoing Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, "Importantly, these strikes were directed against some of ISIL's external plotters, who were actively planning operations against our allies in Europe ... and may also have been connected with some attacks that have already occurred in Europe."
The United States is still working to confirm whether the external plotters suspected of links to the Berlin attacks were killed in the strikes, a US official told CNN.
The sources did not elaborate on the nature of the links to the Berlin attacker, but one possibility is that an individual or individuals at the Libyan camps were in communication with him.
During investigations into Amri before the Berlin attack, two Libyan cell phone numbers were flagged by the German foreign intelligence service BND for further investigation, Germany's Ministry of Interior revealed last week. In a chronology it released, the ministry also stated Amri had wanted to join ISIS in Syria, Iraq or Libya and was believed to have lived in Berlin with a Moroccan national whose paternal cousins were said to be ISIS members in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
Pentagon officials say among those present in the camps were ISIS fighters who had fled from the group's previous stronghold in Sirte who were trying to reconstitute themselves and conduct training.
"We've been watching them for some time," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said. "These were groups of fighters who have been on the move. They have not stayed in the same place for extended periods of time. And this was an opportunity that presented itself that we wanted to take advantage of."
CNN's Laura Goehler and Nadine Schmidt contributed to this report.
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