Additional 167 stranded Nigerians from Libya have arrived Lagos on Monday.
They returnees are made up of 21 adult females, 145 adult males and one child.
The number brings to 532 the number of returnees in the last four days.
The aircraft that brought them back home, Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with Registration Number 5A-DMH, landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 7:47 p.m.
Like several others that returned in recent time, they were assisted back to Nigeria by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU).
The Director General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Maihajja, who received the returnees disclosed that three of them had medical cases and had been immediately attended to by doctors and paramedics.
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Represented by the Southwest Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu, Maihajja, urged the returnees to acquire vocational skills or further their education to contribute their quota to national development.
Officials of the Nigerian Immigration Service, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria and the Police were also on hand to receive them.
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