Some 38 Nigerians who were deported from the United Kingdom have arrived in Lagos, according to reports gotten from authorities in Nigeria.
Among those who were deported back to Nigeria also included mothers and grandmothers and some members of LGBTQ+ communities who were seeking asylum are also part of the deportees.
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Some of the deportees claimed they have lived in the United Kingdom for many years. They arrived in Lagos early this morning with one Home Office charter flight.
However, the Nigeria Ministry of Foreign Affairs told BBC that the deportation was based on Immigration-related offenses.
In another report, it has been revealed that no fewer than 14 migrants, including Nigerians, have reportedly died following a fire incident that razed a boat in south Senegal on Wednesday.
Information reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has it that about 21 people were injured as four of them suffered second-degree burns as they embarked on a journey to Spanish Canary Islands before the boat caught fire.
The mayor of the coastal town, Kafountine in Casamance, David Diatta said that the fire incident occurred yesterday.
‘We’ve been able to recover 14 bodies. The toll will likely rise,’ Diatta said, according to InfoMigrants.
The boat carried 140 people including Nigerians, Guineans, Gambians and Senegalese, and almost 90 people survived the inferno were able to be identified.
‘There were Guineans, Nigerians, Gambians, and Senegalese. The survivors are saying that the fire was started by someone smoking a cigarette where the fuel was kept,’ the mayor added.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that Police have launched investigations into the incident.
In a related development, no fewer than 46 migrants have been discovered dead in and around a large trailer truck that was abandoned on the roadside on the outskirts of the Texas city of San Antonio.
The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years — and came five years after a similar deadly incident in the same central Texas city, a few hours from the Mexican border.
