SHOCK:Over 1,000 Nigerians Without Residency Permit Being Held In a Warehouse In Saudi Arabia

This comes as a shock!!! We have alot of media houses in Nigeria who claims to be so connected and why the hell will BBC be the first to inform us of  sensitive news like this. If this is true, it is so sad this government doesn't care about its citizens. 

They might say 1000 is just a small number when the whole country is facing bigger problems but the truth is, if we don't develop the mentality where we feel the pain of only one Nigerian in trouble, then we will never solve the problems of this great country.

Come to think of it, Nigerians travelling abroad are suffering but they prefer to enjoy the sufferings abroad than to stay in a country where nobody cares, only the rich survives the hussle,,,

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Nigeria repatriates 11,000 foreigners

Nigeria has repatriated around 11,000 foreigners mainly from Niger and Chad over the past six months to curb a growing Islamist insurgency, the immigration services said on Monday.

“The latest number of foreigners repatriated as at this morning is 11,000,” immigration services spokesman Joachim Olumba told AFP, updating an earlier figure.

“The bulk of them are from Niger and Chad.”

The extremist Islamist sect Boko Haram blamed for dozens of attacks in Nigeria that have claimed hundreds of lives, is thought to draw some of its members from neighbouring countries.

Olumba said the repatriation “has been intensified in the past six months following the Boko Haram insurgency,” adding: “We have an obligation to rid the country of undesirable elements.”

He said immigration officers last week caught 120 people trying to enter illegally from Niger “and we quickly sent them back to their country”.

Boko Haram’s deadly gun and bomb attacks have shaken Africa’s most populous country which is divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.

Its base is in northeast Nigeria which borders Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

Violence blamed on Boko Haram, whose specific aims remain largely unclear, has since 2009 claimed more than 1,000 lives, including over 300 this year alone, according to a tally by AFP and activists.

The sect has previously said it wants to create an Islamic state in Nigeria’s deeply impoverished north.

Nigeria’s military authorities last week said Boko Haram has ties with Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM).

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40 Illegal Immigrants From Niger Republic Arrested In Lagos

Barley three days after the President declared State of Emergency in some local government areas of four Northern states and temporary closure of borders linking these states with the neighboring countries in the heat of Boko Haram menace, Police detectives in Lagos have arrested 40 foreigners suspected to have sneaked into the country illegally.

The aliens, said to be dressed in a manner akin to those of the Islamic fundamentalists, were spotted at Berger bus stop, an outskirts of Lagos.

They were promptly intercepted and whisked to the State Criminal Investigation Bureau, SCIB, Ikeja for further interrogation.

At SCIB, sources said the 40 illegal aliens claimed to be Niger Republic nationals but could not say where they were coming from. However, a source at the SCIB, said the illegal aliens were coming from one of the Northern states after the pronouncement of temporary closure of borders of some local government areas in the states, where a state of emergency were declared, adding that they were attempting through the Nigeria/Seme border.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, who confirmed the arrest, said the illegal aliens would be handed over to the Immigration Service for scrutiny and deportation.

Jinadu assured that the police in Lagos have dispatched plain-cloth police detectives to all parts of the state, including entry and exit points with a view to detecting illegal movements.

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