97 Nigerians Deported From South Africa

97 Nigerians were deported by the South African Government for committing various offenses. The deportees landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Monday night in a chartered aircraft with the registration number GBB710 from Johannesburg. .


The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that they were made up of 95 males and two females. Six of the deportees were returned to the country for drug offences while 10 were arrested and deported for other criminal offences.

The others were said to have committed immigration offences. All the deportees were profiled by officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) while those deported for drug related offences were handed over to the Police for further investigation.