About 61 Nigerians, including three minors, were deported from the United Kingdom yesterday.
The deportees, who came aboard a chartered aircraft, arrived in the country in the early hours of the day and were received at the cargo terminal of the Murtala
Muhammed International Airport by the officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).
A source at the NIS told LEADERSHIP that the deportees were brought back for visa-related offences, and they revealed that most of them were picked up on the streets by the British police.
A deportee, Mrs. Eniola Adefuja, confessed that her visa had expired since May and that she was still in the process of renewing it before she was arrested and deported and added that she was not allowed to pick up her personal effects before being flown back to Nigeria.
Another person, who identified herself as Juliet, also admitted that her visa had expired at the time she was arrested and added that she was arrested in a pub and was not allowed to go back to her house to collect her belongings.
Juliet who had lived in London since 1997 also said that she eked out a living by doing menial jobs.