Deportation
14 Dec
The pastor of Nation Family, Tobi Adegboyega, has said he's not about to be deported from the UK where he's facing allegations of financial misconduct. Speaking to BBC, he said, "There is no deportation order. Let me make that clear." On whether he will eventually get deported, the cleric said, "The courts and all the…
9 Dec
An upper tribunal in the United Kingdom has ordered the deportation of Olutobi Ogunbawo, a 43-year-old Nigerian who has been on trial in the United Kingdom since 2019. The 43-year-old has been on trial since 2019 for immigration offences and served three years in prison. Ogunbawo and his wife, Maria Adesanya, a British Citizen,…
4 Dec
London-based cleric, Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, has said the UK is well-known for pulling people down. Adegboyega said this while clearing the air on reports that he's going to be sent away from the UK after he lost his fight against deportation due to an alleged £1.87 million fraud which saw his church, SPAC Nation, shut…
26 Nov
The state of Texas has offered thousands of acres of land to Donald Trump “to construct deportation facilities”.
19 Oct
No fewer than 44 Nigerians and Ghanaians has been were deported from the UK on a single flight on Friday, the largest deportation recorded in recent years, according to the Home Office. The mass removal is part of a broader crackdown on illegal immigration and follows an intensification of the UK's immigration enforcement under the…
29 Aug
About 15,000 Nigerian students in Canada are participating in nationwide protests across provinces against impending deportation due to the
22 May 2024
“I am now on antidepressants and being here alone, I have nobody to talk to. For over two months, I've barely eaten or slept and I don't understand why this is being meted out to us; we didn't do anything wrong,” the BBC quoted Nigerian student in the UK, Esther Obigwe, as saying. Obigwe is…
7 May 2024
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has interfaced with his Lagos State counterpart, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, over a report of the alleged deportation of youths believed to be indigenes of the state from Lagos to Ilesa area of the state.
30 Apr 2024
A human rights activist and journalist, Shallie Abbuisi, has sued the Ghanaian government at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice, over what she termed unlawful arrest, detention and deportation by the Ghana Immigration Service.
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