The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Osun State Command, has arrested 55 foreign nationals from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo for allegedly entering Nigeria without valid immigration documents.
The immigrants were arrested during an enforcement operation by the Osun Command as part of efforts to curb illegal entry and irregular migration in the state.
Addressing journalists shortly after parading the immigrants, the Osun Comptroller of Immigration, Ibrahim Akinyemi, said the arrests followed intelligence available to the command.
Akinyemi said, “These people are 55. They are irregular immigrants.They were arrested and brought here for repatriation.They came in through an unauthorised route. So, their stay here has become a serious nuisance. Through intelligence gathering, we were able to locate their residence, and we have to bring them here with the directive from the service headquarters through the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service. So this is just the begining of exercise.
“They were apprehended through intelligence gathering.We have to go to their various locations to bring them here to the office. We have to profile, check their documents, to know which ones are eligible, or that are legal that can be regularized.
“We checked all of them, and we discovered that they don’t have any travel documents. They don’t have ordinary passports, and they are here doing this illegal online business that is not registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission” , he said.
Akinyemi also said the command would investigate those responsible for bringing immigrants into the state.
“They also claimed to have come through Yola (Adamawa State). By the grace of God, we are taking them back to where they came from”, he said.
One of the migrants, Ismail Mohammed, a Cameroonian, said he arrived in Osun in February 2026 after being invited by a woman living in Chad to engage in online business in the state.
-9News Nigeria.
