Illegal Immigrants: UK Deports 28 Nigerians

The United Kingdom (UK) deported another 28 Nigerians from its country on Thursday for remaining in the country illegally. 

The deportation came two days after Spain repatriated 23 Nigerians for criminal and immigration-related offenses.

Thursday’s deportees were returned aboard a chartered Titanic Airways plane with the registration number AWC-761/2.

The deportees, comprising 21 men and 7 women, touched down at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos at about 12:15 p.m.

One of the female deportees was brought back into the country in a wheelchair and was immediately attended to by Port Health officials, who in turn transferred her to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ayinke House in an ambulance.