{"id":67512,"date":"2025-06-07T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67512"},"modified":"2025-06-07T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T12:14:55","slug":"ireland-deports-35-nigerians-including-women-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/07\/ireland-deports-35-nigerians-including-women-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Deports 35 Nigerians Including Women, Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Irish government has deported 35 Nigerian nationals, including nine women and five children, over multiple violations of the country\u2019s immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>The deportation took place on June 4, 2025, and was coordinated by the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB), using a specially chartered flight that left Dublin Airport on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to the GNIB, the children were part of deported family units, indicating that entire households were returned.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first deportation charter flight from Ireland to Africa in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s Minister for Justice, Jim O\u2019Callaghan, reiterated the government\u2019s commitment to enforcing immigration rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIreland operates under a structured, rules-based immigration framework. For the system to remain fair and functional, deportation orders, particularly those involving failed asylum claims, must be enforced,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Callaghan emphasized the importance of adhering to legal procedures for entry and residency, warning that overstaying or remaining after a failed asylum application carries serious consequences.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that this was Ireland\u2019s third chartered deportation mission of the year, though the first involving African nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The flight experienced a delay due to a medical emergency, which required an unscheduled stop, but all 35 deportees arrived safely in Nigeria the following morning.<\/p>\n<p>The deportation underscores Ireland\u2019s efforts to uphold its immigration laws while reinforcing the need for legal migration channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Irish government has deported 35 Nigerian nationals, including nine women and five children, over multiple violations of the country\u2019s immigration laws. The deportation took place on June 4, 2025, and was coordinated by the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB), using a specially chartered flight that left Dublin Airport on Wednesday night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-67512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67514,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67512\/revisions\/67514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}