TVC E. For the second time this year more Nigerians have been deported back to the country for flouting immigration rules.
It would be recalled that 172 Nigerian were deported from Libya on March 10, 2016 while UK in November last year deported 48persons.
40 new Nigerians have reportedly been deported from the United Kingdom and Australia for alleged immigration related offenses.
On Wednesday, May the 25th, 2016, deportees comprising 33 males and 7 females arrived Nigeria at the hajj camp area of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport by chartered aircraft with registration number ZTA -474 while Air Seychelles with registration number SND at 7:25am.
According to a source at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the Nigerians were deported for either overstaying their visas or committing other immigration offenses.
The deportees were received into Nigeria by various agencies including the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) which checked their identities to ascertain their nationalities; the Police, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) and other relevant stakeholders.
Some of the deportees, it was learnt, became violent when immigration officials attached to the international wing of the airport tried to get their fingerprints for documentation.
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