Italy Deports 40 Additional Nigerians

The Italian government has deported 40 Nigerians for committing various offences in the country.

The deportees arrived at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, on Tuesday night the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports.

Spokesman of the Lagos airport police command, Joseph Alabi, confirmed to NAN that the deportees were brought back in a chartered aircraft with registration number EL-SMU/3737.

Recall that 33 Nigerians were deported from Italy on February 23, two weeks later a second batch of 37 Nigerians were also deported from the European nation.

Alabi said 39 of the deportees were alleged to have committed immigration-related offences while one of them was allegedly involved in drug dealing.

According to him, they 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.

They were profiled by immigration authorities while those without serious charges were allowed to depart to their various destinations, NAN reports.

Recall that the Federal Government announced recently that Germany had notified it of its plans to repatriate 12,000 Nigerian asylum seekers in its country.