The United Kingdom has deported 36 Nigerians for immigration offences.

The Nigerians were deported on Wednesday less than a week after 40 of their compatriots were repatriated from Europe for similar offences.

The deportees, comprising 33 males and three females, were deported from Ireland and England to Nigeria and arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Thursday.

A chartered aircraft, Titan Airways, with flight number ZT9131, returned the deportees to Nigeria about 10a.m on Thursday.

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The deportees, it was gathered, were deported for immigration offences ranging from overstay, expired visas, and lack of resident permits, among other offences.

The deportees, on arrival at the Lagos Airport, went through immigration profiling and were released to depart to their various destinations after the completion of the profiling process.

Six European countries – Austria, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Norway and Denmark – had deported 40 Nigerians for immigration offences last week.

The deportees were brought back to Nigeria in a chartered aircraft, Boeing 767-300, named Privilege Air, with registration number ECLZO, from Austria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos.

The breakdown of the deportees indicated that 35 males and six females were repatriated.

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A source had told our correspondent that the deportees were immediately handed over to the officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the airport for processing and were later left to depart the airport without any stipends given to them for transportation.

Apart from the Aviation Security (AVSEC) officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) who were on the ground to receive the deportees, no officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), the Nigerian Police and other security outfits were on the ground to receive them back to the country, unlike in the previous exercises.

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