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The South African Government has deported 97 Nigerians for civil and criminal offences.
The deportees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Tuesday night aboard a chartered aircraft with registration number GBB710 from Johannesburg, South Africa.
The deportees include 95 males and two females. Six of whom were deported for drug offences; 10 were arrested and deported for criminal offences while others committed various immigration offences.
Those deported for drug and criminal offences were immediately handed over to the police for further prosecution while others with civil cases were left to go home after profiling by the officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service at the airport.
The deportation is coming at a time when there are xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other Africans in South Africa.
On Monday, 41 Nigerian girls evacuated from Mali arrived Nigeria. The girls were victims of human trafficking.