immigrants

Morocco Slams Court Case On 65 Migrants For Crossing To Melilla

June 28, 2022 4:54 pm

While implementing its bans against illegal immigrants, some of the Moroccan authorities have resumed the prosecution of nearly 65 migrants who joined in Friday’s mass attempt to cross into the Spanish enclave of Melilla by storming a border post and attacking the security officials.

The resulting stampede had led to the estimated death of at least 23 migrants, a judicial source confirmed on Monday.

About 2,000 migrants had taken part in the crosssing attempt, while triggering violent skirmishes with Moroccan security forces and Spanish border guards at the Melilla enclave, with about 100 managing to get across.

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Six Illegal Immigrants Arrested At The Nigerian Border

October 16, 2019 10:35 am

The operatives of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service have arrested six illegal immigrants at Idiroko borders in the state.

“When you aid unknown people into your country, without even knowing their aim, it is a big risk,” the comptroller of immigration, Doris Braimah said on Tuesday while parading the suspects.

“It is actually called security threat.”

The illegal immigrants were being smuggled in by two Nigerians through one of the country’s major borders in the state when the officers intercepted them.

The two suspects who smuggled …

Chinese illegal immigrants in Nigeria: NGO calls for probe

May 14, 2019 12:03 am

A leading pro-democracy and non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Nigeria, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has urged the National Assembly to investigate claims that Chinese company in Nigeria recruit convicts from their country in Nigeria as technicians.

This followed what it called an extensively damaging public admission by a committee of the House of Representatives that Chinese companies in Nigeria were bringing in prison inmates from China to work as expatriates on many lucrative construction sites paid for by Nigeria.

HURIWA urged the National Assembly to name and shame public officials facilitating such illegality.

Its National Coordinator Emmanuel …