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Federal Government evacuates 112 more Nigerians stuck in Libya

There are 55 males, 47 women, six children, and four newborns among the evacuees.The Federal Government, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), evacuated 112 trapped Nigerians from Libya's capital, Tripoli, on Tuesday.In a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja, Amb. Kabiru Musa, Charge D'Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission to Libya, stated this. Musa stated that the continual voluntary evacuation exercise was part of the Federal Government's efforts to ensure that no people of the country were stranded abroad. The evacuees were anticipated to arrive at Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos on Tuesday evening, according to him. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as a transit country to Europe, thousands of Nigerians are reported to be stranded in Libya from human trafficking, and suffer terrible ordeals in the hands of their traffickers in the North American country.