One hundred and forty Nigerians were yesterday deported from Libya for immigration and sundry offences.
The deportees were flown in a chartered aircraft that landed at the cargo section of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
According to immigration sources, 74 of the deportees are adult females, 52 adult males, three infants and six unaccompanied persons .
The source said the return of the deportees was facilitated by the cooperation between Nigeria and the International Office of Migration ( IOM).
Some of the deportees narrated their ordeal in Libya, and expressed mixed feelings on their return.
On arrival, the deportees were documented by relevant security agencies before they were ferried out of the airport by buses provided by emergency relief organisations.
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140 Nigerians deported from Libya
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Koffi Olomide deported from Kenya for ‘kicking woman’
DR Congo musician Koffi Olomide was on Saturday morning deported from Kenya after videos of him kicking a woman at the Jomo Kenyetta International Airport, Nairobi, on Friday surfaced.
The video sparked outrage on social media and he was subsequently arrested.
The 60 year old Soukous musician who was in Kenya for a concert on Saturday however, denied kicking anyone.
Speaking to the BBC, Olomide said he had tried to “stop” a “girl who wanted to fight the dancers I came with”.
Regarded as one of Africa’s biggest musician, Kenyans were divided over his deportation but Youth and Gender Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki, said the singer should be deported and his visa permanently revoked.
Olomide’s lawyer, Prof George Wajackoyah, said they had been “treated like animals.”
Olomide was arrested on Friday night after an interview and was detained at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport police station overnight.
The police said he was arrested for creating disturbance at the airport.
“His conduct was an insult to Kenyans and our constitution,” she said. “Violence against women and girls cannot be accepted in any shape, form or manner. It is a blatant violation of their human rights.”
In 2008, he was accused for kicking a television cameramn and breaking his camera in Kinshasha, DRC. And in 2012, he bagged a three month suspended prison sentence, also in his country for assaulting his producer.
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11 Nigerians deported from Spain
The Spanish Government on Friday deported 11 Nigerians alleged to have committed various offences in that country.
According to reports, their deportation is coming less than 48 hours after 41 Nigerians were deported from the United States of America for similar reasons.
The deportees, comprising of 10 males and one female, arrived at the Hajj Camp area of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 7.10 p.m.
They were received by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and the Lagos Airport Police Command.
The spokesperson of the command, DSP Joseph Alabi, confirmed the deportation.
According to him, they were deported for allegedly committing immigration-related offences and other criminal acts in their host country.
The United Kingdom and Australia, on May 25, jointly deported 40 Nigerians alleged to have committed various offences in both countries.
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40 Nigerians deported from UK, Australia
UNITED Kingdom (UK) and Australia yesterday jointly deported 40 Nigerians for immigration offences.
The deportees, comprising men and women, arrived at the Hajj camp area of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at 7:25am on a chartered aircraft.
It was learnt that the chartered aircraft with the registration number ZTA-4741 had on board 36 Nigerians – 29 males and seven females.
Also, Air Seychelles with the registration number SND-1 brought four males into the country for similar immigration offences.
The two countries also deported some Ghanaians, Liberians and Egyptians.
The returnees were received by agencies like the Police, National Agency for Protection and Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS). They checked their identities to ascertain their nationalities.
A source close to the terminal said some of the deportees complained when officers of the NIS attempted to collect their fingerprints.
The source added that others, who didn’t kick against the taking of the fingerprints, were attended to and allowed to leave the airport after the completion of their documentations.
At the Hajj and cargo terminal, where they used as exit, the deportees looked sobre and refused to speak with our correspondent when approached.
Some of them were seeing boarding vehicles out of the airport. Others discussed in groups.
The deportees, it was gathered, were repatriated from their host countries for overstaying their visas and other immigration offences.
NIS Public Relations Officer Mr. Ekpedeme King confirmed the deportation to The Nation when contacted on phone. But he could not give more details.
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28 Nigerians deported from three European countries
Two weeks after 48 Nigerians were deported from United Kingdom for various immigration offences, another 28 citizens were on Thursday night deported from Italy, Switzerland and Belgium for residing in those countries illegally.
A source close to the State Security Service, SSS, attached to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos said that 24 of the returnees were expelled from Italy and two each from Switzerland and Belgium.
The deportees arrived the hajj camp area of MMIA around 7:25pm.
About 80 per cent of the deportees are male .
They came in aboard Meridiana Fly aircraft, which emanated from Rome.
The returnees were received by various agencies such as Immigration that checked their identities to ascertain their nationalities, Police, National Agency for Protection and Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, and other relevant stakeholders.
The SSS said told our correspondent that the deportees were returned to the country for staying beyond the time allowed them
About two weeks ago,the United Kingdom repatriated 48 Nigerians for allegedly residing in that country unlawfully.
The British authorities also planned to deport no fewer than 500 Nigerians in the coming months for staying in that country without valid papers.
One of the deportees then, Success Smart, a 15-year-old teenage girl, claimed that she travelled out of the Nigeria two years ago through the tedious Libyan route.
On why she why she did not return with the earlier batch during Libyan repatriation exercise, she said she was learning a trade to become a hairdresser and that her parents refused to sign agreement with her master as an apprentice while she was in Nigeria then.
She, however, regretted travelling out of the country and urged other Nigerian youths against seeking any greener pasture abroad.
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50 Nigerians deported from UK arrive in Lagos
FIFTY Nigerian deportees alleged to have committed offences in the United Kingdom (UK) arrived in Lagos yesterday.
The 44 men and six women were flown into Nigeria about 6.30am in a chartered B767 aircraft belonging to PITAN Airways.
They were screened at the cargo terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport by officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).
A source at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said some of them were deported for immigration-related offences.
Those alleged to have committed criminal offences were handed over to officers from the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Others were directed by airport security agents to find their way to their homes.
Some of the deportees called their friends and relations to pick them up. Others hired cars to take them home.
One of the deportees, who pleaded not to be named, said he had a dual citizenship of Nigeria and Netherlands and that he was picked up on his way to the studio.
He claimed that he was stranded as he did not have any relation in Lagos.
But a source noted that FAAN was expecting 500 deportees, adding that this was the first batch.
The Acting Nigerian High Commissioner in the UK, Mr. Olukunle Bamgbose, had said the UK government planned to deport 29,000 Nigerians.
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Deported from Greece, held for robbery
Ebonyi State Police Command has busted a robbery syndicate. One of the suspects was said to have been deported from Greece.
The three-man gang, it was gathered, robbed one Mrs Maureen Nnebuife of the sum of N650,000.
They have been paraded at the State Police Command headquarters, Abakaliki, by the Commissioner of Police, Maigari Dikko.
The CP said the command’s Security and Investigation Bureau nabbed the suspects after a painstaking investigation.
The suspects included one Okechukwu Okolie, 27, who reportedly returned from Greece recently. His residential address was given as No. 23 Iweka Road, 9th Mile, Enugu State. Another suspect, Nnabude Onwudiwe, 28, was said to hail from Achi Village, Oji-River, Enugu State, while Sunday Achu, 38, of Umulokpa Nsukka, Enugu State was named as the third man in the gang.
The CP said: “Along Afikpo Road close to Romchi Park, the trio-in-crime accosted Maureen Ekechi Nnebuife, 29, residing at No. 7 Convent Road, Abakaliki and beguiled her into their red-coloured Golf car with registration number Ondo AM 763 NND”.
“One of the miscreants feigned to have just arrived from Greece and didn’t know his way around town and needed to be directed to any nearby Eye Clinic for medication”.
“While in the car, the said woman was dispossessed of the sum of N50, 000 cash which her husband sent her to…deposit in a bank”.
“Not yet done with her, the crooks forced her under threat to her mother’s residence at Onueke and robbed her of N600, 000 cash which the poor woman trades with in her meat business”.
“On a tip-off, the hoodlums were trailed to Spera en-Deo Junction and nabbed by Sub operatives. The aforesaid red Golf car was recovered as exhibit”.
One of the suspects, Okechukwu described his gang as OBT people (419ners), explaining that their victim was robbed for her greediness.
He said: “It is out of her greediness and that was why she was robbed. I was deported from Greece because of the crisis there and this is just my two months I was deported.”
On his part, Sunday Agu said he ventured into crime after being duped in his trading business.
The CP who was represented at the event by the command’s spokesman, DSP Chris Anyanwu said the command also rescued one Chidinma Nwaji, a 28-year-old man from a thick forest in Cross River State after he was abducted by ritual murderers.
He said: “On the 6th day of May, 2015, Chidinma Nwaji, a 28-year-old man of Ikenyi Ndiebor Ezza-Inyimagu, Izzi Local Government Area, Ebonyi State embarked on a journey back to his place of abode”.
“When approaching the Motor Park, he felt that somebody whom he couldn’t recognise tapped him and from that moment he lost consciousness and never knew any other thing that happened to him until he recovered and found himself in a strange bush”.
“On getting wind of the disappearance of the said Chidinma Nwaji, operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of this Command swung into action and trailed the victim to Okondo Village in Ogoja Local Government Area, Cross-River State where he was eventually rescued on from a bush”.
“He confided in the operatives that the hoodlums who abducted him wanted to kill and use him for money rituals but fortunately when they cut his forehead and took his blood sample for test, the witch doctor rejected it, saying that his blood is not the type required for the rituals”.
DSP Anyanwu said investigation is ongoing to unravel the miscreants behind the dastardly act.
Meanwhile, CP Dikko has decorated promoted police spokesman Anyanwu and 12 others, urging them to see their elevation as added responsibility.
Anyanwu was promoted from Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP).
•Officers of the command In the promotion, 12 officers were promoted from ASP to DSP while one was promoted from the rank of CSP to SP.
Addressing the newly promoted officers, Maigari thanked the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase for finding them worthy of the elevation and called on them to see their promotions as added responsibility.
While congratulating the officers, he said they have a long way to go in the force and urged them to redouble their efforts to continue to grow.
Responding on behalf of the promoted officers, DSP Chris Anyanwu expressed gratitude to the police service commission for the promotion.
The officer promoted from DSP to SP was Abel Inya while those promoted to the rank of DSP included Michael Ayogu, Joshua Maigoroson, Honesty Onyeneke, Bethel Ejike, Ifeanyi Osuji and James Arikpo.
Others were Uzor Aiyeba, Kazeem Adegoke, Peter Josiah, Peter Enighe, Victor Obasogie and Amaralam Chika.
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Igiebor deported from Germany
Real Betis gaffer Pepe Mel could not count on the services of Nigeria international Nosa Igiebor for the away match against Espanyol yesterday, as the Super Eagles ace had already been sent back to Nigeria by German immigration authorities.
On Saturday, Nosa departed Nigeria to join his Betis teammates in Barcelona, Spain ahead of the clash with Espanyol. But due to a bureaucratic problem, the German authorities did not allow him go down from his plane in Frankfurt on Saturday morning.
Norwegian-Nigerian agent Atta Aneke provided an update on his client, who last night was on his way back to Nigeria to sort out the problem associated with his international passport.
”The truth is that on Saturday morning Nosa was stopped in transit in Frankfurt, Germany. Apparently, he needs some documents from the Spanish Embassy in Nigeria – a stay permit,” Aneke told allnigeriasoccer.com in a telephone conversation.
This is not the first time Nosa has traveled out of Spain since his switch from Hapoel Tel Aviv last summer.
Recall that the midfielder was part of the Super Eagles squad which beat Venezuela in an exhibition match only last November. But he did not encounter the same problem after the game in the United States.
”Not sure why this is a special case. Might be within a time frame he had to have processed the papers, or just met an immigration officer that was strict. Nosa is doing all he can to talk to the Spanish embassy for them to process the papers quickly so he can return to his team,” said Aneke.
Real Betis have lost patience with Nosa Igiebor. Ghana international Wakaso Mubarak who represented his country at the African Cup of Nations returned to Spain on Thursday.
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65 Nigerians deported from Europe
About 65 Nigerians were yesterday deported from Europe, an official of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has disclosed.
The FAAN official, who declined to be named in print, disclosed that the Nigerians were brought home aboard a chartered flight which landed at Murtala Muhammed International Airport Cargo section in Lagos.
He explained that the Nigerians were deported from European countries of Spain, Bulgaria, Romania and the United Kingdom.
It was learnt that they were brought back home for immigration and related offences.
The source said the deportees arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos about 7:40 a.m.
They were 48 males, 12 females and five children.
He explained that some of the deportees were alleged to possess invalid documents.
He said eight out of the deportees, including three females, were deported for alleged criminal offences.
He added that the eight persons were immediately arrested on arrival by policemen and taken to the Criminal Investigation Department, Nigeria Police, Ikoyi, Lagos in a Toyota pick-up with registration number “Ontario AZKC-549”.
It was learnt that five male deportees initially resisted arrest, but later succumbed.