Friday, May 12, 2017
Abuja
The Deadly Cross
Illegal migrants from Nigeria account for 21 per cent of the total 171, 299 immigrants that braved the Mediterranean odds to arrive Italy in 2016.About 36,000 crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Italy in 2016, with most of them claiming they were running away from Boko Haram insurgency or the Niger Delta crisis.
The Nigerian government regarded the high number of Nigerians seeking asylum abroad as “mind boggling and embarrassing”.
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