The Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) announced on Friday, the voluntary return of 149 illegal immigrants to Nigeria from Libya.
The migrants arrived at Murtala Muhammed International Airport on a chartered plane operated by Al-Buraq Air, the agency said.
The returning migrants, who are mostly men with 37 women and 5 children, were repatriated under the UN-supervised voluntary repatriation program, according to NEMA.
Libya is suffering from illegal flows of migrants across the southern border, prompting the UN to launch a voluntary repatriation program to help Libya evacuate the migrants.
