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Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by slap1(m): 11:09am On Aug 08, 2015
Ordinary Gabon?
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Nobody: 11:10am On Aug 08, 2015
No problem very soon, nigeria will become the hotbed of success.
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by architectola03(m): 11:11am On Aug 08, 2015
Drkul:
Nigeria una no dey deport dem too ni
Nigeria aint deporting, don't you know that here is a dumping ground....... I laugh when other countries are maltreating Nigerians and our government aint reacting here.... God help we Nigerians!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amen.

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Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by tsdarkside(m): 11:24am On Aug 08, 2015
aye9ice007:
I keep asking one question, Nigeria too no sabi repatriate foreigners wt illegal passport abi na all those forigners wey full Lagos and Abuja get complete papers. I wish the change we are enjoyin now go reach that level

ask them.....we,nigerians make no sense....how many foreigners are even in nigeria sef,without correct papers................?? angry angry angry

nigeria,soooo rich..but mind,very poor..!!!..... angry angry angry angry angry angry angry
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Nobody: 11:25am On Aug 08, 2015
What the Hell is Happening? Nigerians being repatriated Home from Every corner!!!

So tree Cameroon and Gabon repatriate Nigerians!!!! ITS OKAYYY! Baba is Gradually fixing Nigeria.

I hope Togo and Bene Republic would not do the same soon
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by chocolateme(f): 11:27am On Aug 08, 2015
Is Nigeria not returning the favour?
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Nobody: 11:39am On Aug 08, 2015
metroparrot:
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500 Nigerians were repatriated from Gabon on August 7th over allegations of having illegal travel papers. The Nigerians repatriated said they were not given fair hearing by the courts in Gabon after they were accused and hurriedly charged before their courts. Officials of the Nigerian Immigration Service were on hand to receive the Nigerians. The returnees were examined to ascertain their health status before being allowed to cross into Nigeria. More photos after the cut..
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http://www.metronaija.com/2015/08/photos-500-nigerians-repatriated-from.html

cc: lalasticlala ishilove
CLOSE TO 1 MIILION IGBOS LIVE IN GABON. NO BE TODAY, SINCE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR...... AND MANY MORE ARE STILL GOING BY BOAT.
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by onatisi(m): 11:39am On Aug 08, 2015
INTROVERT:
okay


of all places to go on this green earth, it's Gabon. Am not surprised they have been rejected after all even we reject ourselves and we are from the same country.
Gabon is a wonderful place.I lived there before and I can tell you it is one of the easiest place to make money if you are honest hard working and skilled
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Ybnm4life(m): 11:40am On Aug 08, 2015
I won't blame them for going to Garbon of all places to seek comfort and greener pastures, had it been the rate of corruption of our resources and finances where cheched, the Garbonese will be the ones begging us to allow them acces to our dear Country...
Thank God we have a responsive Presido who has promised us change now.
I sense a good turnaround for Nigeria now.
Great Nigerian, Great People, Great Presido!!!
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by cutieme(m): 11:42am On Aug 08, 2015
@cocoduck,a beg bro no mind those people way never cross border ones make them dey yarn wet in dem no know. See bro,how person go take go Gabon a beg tell us way ready go there and live legally, thanks.
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Spybradd: 12:02pm On Aug 08, 2015
koolpal:
come back home peacefully, baba is fixing the country back to where she belongs... welcome... to hell with gabon...Sai Nigeria...

baba that nigerians living in benin that they are better off there?
sai kò,psy ni..
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by IYANGBALI: 12:04pm On Aug 08, 2015
Just imagine?gabon of all places. God forbid bad thing for me to travel to that kind country
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Spybradd: 12:05pm On Aug 08, 2015
PDPwayoo:

CLOSE TO 1 MIILION IGBOS LIVE IN GABON. NO BE TODAY, SINCE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR...... AND MANY MORE ARE STILL GOING BY BOAT.

thou art a baboon...
grin
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by shizzy7(f): 12:08pm On Aug 08, 2015
THE DAY NIGERIA WOULD REPATRIATE FOREIGNERS!!! NOBODY SHOULD SCREAM OOO,,,,
FIRST TO DO NO DEY PAIN,,,NA SECOND DEY PAIN PASS... BUHARI SHEY YOU ARE HEARING..
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by shizzy7(f): 12:19pm On Aug 08, 2015
LIAR,,,,LIAR,, LIAR,, I DID MY RESEARCH,,,

522 WEST AFRICANS NOT NIGERIANS,,,,
71- Nigerians,,,,

128-Malians,,,,

87-Burkina Faso,,,,

57-Senegalese,,,,

41- Togolese,,,,

41-Guinea.,,

21- Benin,,,,

9- Ghanaians „„

3- Gambians
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Nobody: 12:21pm On Aug 08, 2015
Spybradd:


thou art a baboon...
grin
Ur father. If na lie, ask anybody u know that stay in Gabon. They even accused their president to be adopted igbo child

You don't know ur history as an Igbo. They have tribe there like the Yoruba have tribe in ivory coast.
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Pidggin(f): 12:28pm On Aug 08, 2015
What a shame...
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Spybradd: 12:30pm On Aug 08, 2015
PDPwayoo:

Ur father. If na lie, ask anybody u know that stay in Gabon. They even accused their president to be adopted igbo child

You don't know ur history as an Igbo. They have tribe there like the Yoruba have tribe in ivory coast.

lolllllll......sorry na,haba! grin
ok,thou art not a baboon again...
grin grin grin







....biko bia,if yoruba boku beacou for ivory coast,that means.......agbero dey ivory coast? na question i ask o
grin
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by shizzy7(f): 12:43pm On Aug 08, 2015
EroticAngelina:
Why am I reading all these deportation news are Nigerians that desperate to leave Nigeria
its west Africans and 71 nigerians
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Nobody: 12:43pm On Aug 08, 2015
Wetin dey fine go dere now; naijarians, our waala 2mush joo undecided
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by shizzy7(f): 12:52pm On Aug 08, 2015
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The Nigeria Immigration Service has received a total of 522 West African deportees from Garbon through the Calabar seaport.

The people were repatriated on board a travelers vessel, which had 13 crew members and 71 Nigerians, while other nationalities included 128 Malians, 87 from Burkina Faso, 57 Senegalese, those from Guinea and Togo were 41 each.
Of those repatriated, 21 came from Benin Republic, 9 from Ghana and only 3 were Gambia nationals.
The alleged illegal migrants claimed that the Government of Garbon meted out inhuman treatment to some of them despite showing proof of travel and resident permits.

One of the deportees from Oron Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Victor Elijah told newsmen in Calabar: “I spent my life in Gabon. All my business is in Gabon. I travel out of Gabon to Dubai; my son and my wife I left them there, even my car. As I speak with you here, I have my card; I have my papers, which shows that I’m a Nigerian-Gabone.”

Kaaku, a 43 year old immigrant from Ghana, said “the authorities caught us and sent us back to our country. They kept us for days without food. Truly, we were apprehended because we did not have the relevant travel document. But, I left my child back there in Gabon.”

“We travelled out of our country to find means of survival in Gabon. They asked us to do our paper, but we could not do the paper. So, they arrested us. They regard us as animals. They don’t want any stranger in Gabon. They just repatriated us like animals”, said another Ghanaian immigrant, Masa’audu Adamu, who was engaged in the car wash business.


Transporting Migrants

In an interview with some journalists at the Calabar Port in Cross River State, South of Nigeria, the Comptroller of Command, Mrs. Funke Adeuyi said the migrants were deported due to their inability to present a valid travel document.

Mrs. Adeuyi said “usually migrants have three sources – country of source; country of transit and countries of origin. Probably, a lot of them left through the Calabar River, which is closer to Gabon and a great attraction to migrants. But, maybe the Gabonese Government does not have the funds to send them by air and resorted to send them on board a vessel ship, which is cheaper, so that they can transport them to their various countries”.
According to the Cross River State Comptroller, transporting the migrants to their destinations or countries of origin was the sole responsibility of the Government of Gabon.

“We have been in diplomatic relations with Gabon prior to the arrival of these migrants. The Gabonese Government took sole responsibility for their transport to Nigeria and from Nigeria to their various countries”, she stated.

Colonel Moustapha Sarr, an attaché from the Senegalese Embassy in Nigeria, who was on ground to receive the deportees, said “we are here to receive our people. We are grateful to the Comptroller for the treatment given to our people. Nigeria has been kind to us and we are grateful for that. My country through the ministry of foreign affairs has made adequate arrangements to receive the migrants in Senegal”.
387 migrants would be leaving for their countries through Seme, the border between Nigeria and the Republic of Benin, while 64 Nigerians will ease out through Jibia border in Katsina State and all of them would be conveyed from Calabar in a total of 10 buses.
According to the Nigeria Immigration Service, the arrival of the migrants was the second time the NIS was receiving deportees from Gabon.
In June 23, 2015, the first batch of 590 migrants were from the West African region.



http://voiceofnigeria.org.ng/522-west-Africans-repatriated-from-gabon/
YOU POSTED 500 NIGERIANS NOT WEST AFRICANS..
. YOU CLOSED MY THREAD CORRECTING YOU,,, TOOK MY LINK, MODIFIED YOUR OWN,, HOW WOULD YOU MODIFY THOSE POST ON THE FIRST PAGE who think they are all Nigerians.... I wont be surprised if you delete this post
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Nobody: 12:56pm On Aug 08, 2015
Spybradd:


lolllllll......sorry na,haba! grin
ok,thou art not a baboon again...
grin grin grin







....biko bia,if yoruba boku beacou for ivory coast,that means.......agbero dey ivory coast? na question i ask o
grin

no wahala bro. let me give u another information about your igbo. They have tribe in Caribbean Island that speak igbo till today. YOU PEOPLE NEED TO PUT YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER, IM SURE MANY PEOPLE WILL TRACE THEIR ROOT BACK TO IGBO LAND.

I wish igbos luck for Biafra state but let it be peaceful. Fight with pen and diplomacy not war.

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Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by dbaggy46(m): 1:02pm On Aug 08, 2015
Its too appauling to hear that common Gabon that is not even up to a quarter of Nigeria deports people while there are lots of illegal immigrants from Chinese roaming the streets of lagos without legal Resident permit
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by neocortex: 1:13pm On Aug 08, 2015
koolpal:
come back home peacefully, baba is fixing the country back to where she belongs... welcome... to hell with gabon...Sai Nigeria...

Who are you to contradict Buhari's order ?
Buhari told Nigerians in diaspora to stay where they are and
not come back to add to Nigeria's problems.
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by Litmus: 1:28pm On Aug 08, 2015
Abugab:
Gabon!
Repatriate over 500 Nigerians, ah ah ah.....
Who do we blame now, the govt or those people who went there?


70 are Nigerians the rest are from various African Nations. Cant blame Gabon, in these times of insecurity, you have to know who is in your country as best as you can. When terrorism ends, and unmitigated lawlessness too, then maybe brotherlyness can safely return. Nigeria needs to do the same. The only problem is , if Nigeria were to deport the foreigners in our mildest back to their nations of origin there would be disaster. Besides we'd never hear the end of it. See how Nigerians are deported and we make no bones about it but the once we deported Ghanians, man- no-go-here-word.


I noticed this qoute
387 migrants would be leaving Nigeria for their countries through Seme, the border between Nigeria and the Republic of Benin,
Truth is those people aren't leaving Nigeria natin, they'll melt into the country.
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by oshiosense(m): 1:29pm On Aug 08, 2015
Even Gabon?
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by RaptorX: 2:42pm On Aug 08, 2015
agarawu23:
Gabon is a rich country with good economy.

one day our Nigeria will be better and we will stop travelling to other countries for greener pasture
Don't mind all these people saying Gabon of all places, there are lots of Nigerians living in Gabon. But the Gabonese are a xenophobic country like South Africans.
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by DangotePikin: 3:09pm On Aug 08, 2015
Abugab:
Gabon!
Repatriate over 500 Nigerians, ah ah ah.....
Who do we blame now, the govt or those people who went there?
Nairalanders will never read a post before commenting on it.
Re: 522 West Africans Repatriated From Gabon Over Illegal Travel Papers by JayJustus(m): 6:06pm On Aug 08, 2015
oduastates:


Haha.
Many of you simply have no idea of the world beyond your porous borders

52 Latvia 23,707
53 Chile 22,971
54 Gabon 22,924
55 Argentina 22,582
56 Antigua and Barbuda 22,573
57 Saint Kitts and Nevis 21,091
58 Croatia 20,889
59 Uruguay 20,556
60 Romania 19,712
61 Turkey 19,610
62 Panama 19,455
63 Mauritius

Gabon has the 54 largest GDP per capita in the world

Nigeria ? 123 largest

121 Congo, Rep. 5,869
122 Samoa 5,769
123 Nigeria 5,602
124 India 5,418
125 Tonga 5,304


Which means that the economic output per person in a year is 4 times higher .

A crude explanation :
It basically means that potentially four times more money is there to be made ,salaries are potentially 4 times higher , government spending per head is potentially higher .
The citizens probably live better or have 4 times the chance of having a higher standard of living



now compare the population with Nigeria it's like you're saying 50 people sharing 100,000 naira and 10 people sharing 50,000...there you go that's Nigeria and Gabon respectively... now compare the purchasing power of Nigeria and compare the purchasing power of Gabon...you might wanna see the top economies by total GDP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)


Gabon may have it fine cos they are small but don't compare em with Nigeria...please

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