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US deports 41 Nigerians
Less than a week after 162 Nigerians were returned from Libya to the country due to their inability to cross to Europe, another 41 Nigerians were yesterday deported from the United States of America (USA) through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA) Lagos for various offences.
Most of the deportees were returned to the country for criminal offences.
All the 41 deportees were male. The aircraft that brought back the deportees, Miami Air International with the registration number N733MA, touched down at the airport at exactly 1:20pm
Nine of the deportees were repatriated into Nigeria for drug related offence, 26 for police case while the other six were returned for immigration offences.
As at the time of filing this report, those with criminal offences were still being held by the respective agencies while those with immigration offences were released to go to their various destinations after going through profiling by the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS.
