The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received repatriated Nigerians who travelled to Sudan in search of greener pastures.
The returnees numbering thirteen including women and children were received at the Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano State.
They arrived at the airport on an Ethiopian Airline with flight number ET343.
According to reports, all the thirteen returnees are from Kano and Jigawa States.
Out of the thirteen were eight children and five female adults.
According to the NEMA coordinator in Kano State, Dr Nuruddeen Abdullahi, the returnees were brought back to Nigeria by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
He added that their return was part of an initiative by the IOM on migrant protection and re-integration in collaboration with the European Union's Voluntary Returnees.
According to Abdullahi: “The returnees were brought back through a voluntary programme for the distress who had left the country to seek greener pastures in various European countries and could not afford to return when their journey became frustrated."
He further disclosed that as a move to reintegrate them into society, they would undergo four days of training while catering for their feeding, blankets, toiletries, mosquito nets, clothes and pampers.
While disclosing that the agency has received 367 stranded Nigerians from the Niger Republic, he advised people to stop putting themselves in danger zones while searching for greener pastures.
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