IOM Rescues 67,000 Stranded Nigerian Migrants, Supports 30,000

The United Nations International Organization for Migration (UN-IOM) has rescued more than. 67,000 stranded Nigerian migrants and empowermed at least 30,000 returnees since 2017.

Ms Fatima Adeyemi, IOM Project Assistant on Awareness Raising, disclosed this at a three-day migration reporting workshop on Monday in Lagos.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the journalists’ training had the theme: ”From Headlines to Impact: A Capacity Building on Ethical and Data-driven Migration Reporting in Nigeria’.

It is targeted at equipping Nigerian journalists with appropriate migration reporting knowledge.