NAN recalls that Basil Kenbo, the Senior Special Assistant on Oil and Gas to the Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson, alleged that the expatriates, who were working for Daewoo Nigeria Limited, had irregular work permit
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Abeshi made this known at a meeting with Christopher Pennick, Chief Executive Officer of Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, the operators of the MM2 Terminal at the Airport, which used to be solely for local flights
The position of the Federal Government comes after an initial one on the withdrawal of diplomatic and official passports held by “unauthorized” persons by the Nigeria Immigration Service
The source said Paradang’s problem was traceable to the order given by former President Goodluck Jonathan for the employment of personnel into the NIS after the failed attempt to conduct examination into the Service on March 15, 2014
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President Jonathan said that the Federal Government was fully committed to ensuring high standards for recruitment processes into the public service and the provision of safety measures to avoid the recurrence of the March 15, 2014 incident, which claimed many lives
It stated that the service also recovered 57 Temporary Voter Cards, 367 old national identity cards and 11 old TVC slips from the foreigners
The Controller of Immigration, Lagos State Command, Justina Ahmedu, said such suspects would be repatriated immediately
The controller said 501 Nigeriens were denied entry into the country, while 92 Nigerians were disallowed to enter Niger Republic due to lack of valid travel documents, poor economic status, under age and alleged human trafficking, among others
Ismail, who spoke on Monday in Enugu during the command’s end of year party, said most of the illegal immigrants were from Niger Republic, while few were from Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Ghana
The Comptroller of the NIS in the state, Isa Jere, made the announcement on Saturday in Dutse, the state capital, while parading seven Nigeriens and one Malian illegal immigrants
Haruna said the immigrants were arrested because they entered into the Takum axis of the state without valid traveling documents
It was written by Emmanuel James Wuyep, a former Senior Correspondent of Leadership newspaper
Thirty-five of the foreigners are said to be from Congo, which produced the first ever Ebola victim in 1976
Obua said that due to the expansive size of the borders and the inability of Immigration officers to effectively patrol them, the service had forwarded a proposal to the government to provide it with modern technological equipment like censors
Recent investigations by The Eagle Online over the delay of the Senate’s consideration of the report revealed that the report may not be considered at all before the expiration of this seventh National Assembly
No fewer than 20 persons died during stampedes at different venues of the examination conducted on March 14
Adeboyega said the suspects, who allegedly gained entry into the country without valid documents, comprised 36 men and nine women
These decisions, alongside another that offers employment to the relatives of the over 20 dead victims and those injured during the exercise on Saturday, were taken at the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday
The APC, in a communique after a meeting of its Interim National Committee on Tuesday, said the Federal Government not only fleeced the applicants by collecting N1,000 from the over 770,000 applicants and then did not make adequate provision for the examination but also cared less about their survival