Martins Ejike

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has dispelled rumours that it is in Benue State to play a script with its National Emergency Agricultural Intervention Fund, an intervention meant to benefit 23,000 farmers who were either affected by the 2018 flood or the farmers/herders conflict in the state.

The fifth batch of 136 Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived Port Harcourt International Airport in the early hours of Tuesday, Mr Martins Ejike, South-South Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has said.

The fifth batch of 136 Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived Port Harcourt International Airport in the early hours of Tuesday, Mr Martins Ejike, South-South Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has said.

The South-South Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Martins Ejike, has said that Edo state alone recorded 309 out of 484 Libya migrants, while record also showed that over 80 per cent of the returnees were indigenes of Edo and Delta states.

Mr Martins Ejike, the South-South Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has expressed dissatisfaction over poor response of some state governments in evacuating the Libyan returnees from the reception centre in the state.

Paul Eke, a Libya returnee, says many Nigerians “are still being imprisoned” in parts of the North African country.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has given state governments 48 hours to evacuate their Libya returnees from its centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The third batch of 560 Nigerian returnees from Libya have arrived Port Harcourt, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.