Eight European countries deport 50 Nigerians

by Azeez Adeniyi

About 50 Nigerians deported from eight countries for immigration offences on Thursday arrived the country.

They were deported variously from Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Luxembourg, Austria, Belgium, Spain and Hungary.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the deportees who included 48 males and 2 females arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos at about 7.36 a.m.

[Read Also: Italy deports 40Nigerians for immigration offences]

They were transported in a chartered Privileged Time aircraft, with registration number EC-L20.

Spokesman of the Lagos Airport Police Command, DSP Joseph Alabi, confirmed the development.

Alabi said: “This morning, we received 50 Nigerians who were brought back from Europe.

“We had three males from Switzerland; from Germany, we had seven males; from Sweden, we had four males, from Luxembourg, we had six males; from Austria, we had 18, comprising of 17 males and one female.

“From Belgium, we had only one female; from Spain, we had five males and finally from Hungary, we had six males, which makes it a total of 50,’’ he said.

He said the deportees were received by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and the Police.

Also on ground to receive them were officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.

Their deportation comes after 40 Nigerians were deported from Italy.

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