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The National Emergency Management Agency received 129 Nigerians stranded at Agadez, Niger Republic, on Saturday in Kano.
NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Nuradeen Abdullahi, gave the figure when he received the returnees.
The News Agency of Nigeria<\/em> reports that the returnees arrived in Kano in three luxury buses provided by the International Organisation on Migration.
\u201cThe returnees were brought back through a voluntary repatriation programme for those who left Nigeria to seek greener pastures in various European countries but could not get to their destinations and became frustrated,\u2019\u2019 Abdullahi said.<\/p>\n

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The coordinator added that the returnees included 125 male, two female and two toddlers.
According to him, the returnees were from different parts of Nigeria; some from Kano, Gombe and Anambra States.
He added that they would be trained for four days to be self-reliant and would be given grants to start new lives. <\/p>\n

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    The returnees were given toiletries and clothes and were fed on arrival.
    One of them, Ummi Aliyu from Kano State, a widow and mother of nine, said she travelled with two of her kids up Algeria for greener pasture.
    \u201cI am a widow; that was why I left my seven other children in Nigeria to travel outside the country to get enough money to take good care of them,\u2019\u2019 she said.
    Another returnee, James Kelechi from Anambra State, said he operated a medicine store before he left Nigeria in search of greener pasture.
    \u201cMy business was not moving fine; that was why I decided to travel to Italy in search of greener pasture,\u2019\u2019 he said.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the returnees arrived in Kano in three luxury buses provided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nNEMA receives 129 Nigerians stranded in Niger Republic - Punch Newspapers - City Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEMA receives 129 Nigerians stranded in Niger Republic - Punch Newspapers City Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NEMA receives 129 Nigerians stranded in Niger Republic - Punch Newspapers City Watch %\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"City Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100083282987806\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-22T23:15:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wp-header-logo-56.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"810\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/6f3e02bc6483df72f5abc6e9624d0cc8\"},\"headline\":\"NEMA receives 129 Nigerians stranded in Niger Republic – Punch Newspapers\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-22T23:15:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484\"},\"wordCount\":319,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wp-header-logo-56.png\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484\",\"name\":\"NEMA receives 129 Nigerians stranded in Niger Republic - Punch Newspapers - City Watch\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wp-header-logo-56.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-22T23:15:08+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wp-header-logo-56.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wp-header-logo-56.png\",\"width\":810,\"height\":1080},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=484#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NEMA receives 129 Nigerians stranded in Niger Republic – Punch Newspapers\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/\",\"name\":\"City Watch\",\"description\":\"People . 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