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  According to Passport Index, the Philippines passport has a visa-free score of 61.  Passport Index recently released the list of most powerful passports in 2017, and Germany, with a score of 159, was placed first, followed by Sweden and Singapore, both placed second with 158 points. Looking only at …

The latest deportation is coming barely two days after 40 Nigerians were deported for similar reasons from Italy barely  a week after 23 Nigerians were equally deported from United Kingdom. A source close to the Department of State Security (DSS) attached to the airport said that the deportees comprises of …

Nigerians were Tuesday deported from Italy . The deportees numbering 40 arrived the cargo section of the Muritala Muhammed Airport , Lagos aboard a chartered  plane,  Air Meridiana , with the registration number E1-FNU  at about 8.30pm, Vanguard reports. The deportees were said to have committed immigration and criminal offences. …

Nigeria on Wednesday asked the Indian Government to ensure the immediate arrest and prosecution of those responsible for the attack on Nigerian students in an Indian university, Nan reports. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Olushola Enikanolaiye, made the call in Abuja at a meeting on the issue …

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, says another set of 180 Nigerians are expected in Nigeria from Libya on Tuesday. Dabiri-Erewa disclosed this when she received the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons Commission, Alhaja Sadiya …

The National Emergency Management Agency says it has confirmed the authenticity of a video recently circulating on the social media, which captured some stranded migrants in Libya, Punch reports. The spokesman for the agency in the South-West, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, told our correspondent on Monday that NEMA had found out …

A total 116 Nigerians have been killed in South Africa through extrajudicial means in the last two years, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa has disclosed. Nearly seven in 10 of the killings were carried out by the South African police. The …

More than 12,000 Nigerians asy­lum seekers in Germany are like­ly to be deported in 2018 be­cause they will be denied asylum status, a German official confirmed on Tuesday in Abuja. According to Authorityngr report, the Global Head of Programme, Mi­gration and Development, Dr Ralf Sanf­tenberg, stated this when he visited …

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday granted citizenship to 335 foreigners and rejected 165 applications. The Minister of Interior, retired Gen. Abudulrahman Dambazau, said on Wednesday that the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Nigerian citizenship received 500 applications and recommended 335 of the applicants for approval. He explained that 245 of …

Another 140 Nigerians who voluntarily agreed to return to Nigeria from Libya where they have been stranded on Tuesday arrived the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) Lagos, aboard a Libyan Airlines plane. One of the returnees described her experience in Libya as living in hell. Mrs Ifeoluwa Adeosun, an indigene of …