Read Why Nigerians Were Deported From UK

The United Kingdom on Wednesday stated that 50 Nigerians were deported
after having committed various offences while in the country.

The deportees, made of 44 males and six females, were flown into
Nigeria at about 6:30 a.m. aboard a chartered B767 aircraft belonging
to PITAN Airways.

NAN reports that they were received and screened at the cargo terminal
of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport by officials of the
Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS).

A reliable source at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)
told NAN that some of them were deported for immigration-
related offences.

The source, who pleaded anonymity, said some of them called their
friends and relations to pick them up, while others secured cabs to
take them to their various destinations.

According to the source, others alleged to have committed criminal
offences were handed over to officers from the Force Criminal
Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos.

The source noted that FAAN was expecting no fewer than 500 deportees,
adding that this was only the first batch.

NAN recalled that the Acting Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK, Mr
Olukunle Bamgbose, had recently disclosed that the UK Government had
plans to deport about 29,000 Nigerians.

-PMNews