At least 35 Nigerians have been deported from the Republic of Ireland.

The number includes five children.

They were all flown to Nigeria in a chartered flight that left the Dublin Airport on Wednesday night.

According to the Irish Mirror, the number is made up of 21 men, nine women, and five children.

They have landed in Nigeria on Thursday.

Irish Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, said he was “happy to say” that all of them have returned to Nigeria despite an unscheduled stopover due to a medical incident on board.

Although the Irish government did not give a specific reason for the deportation of the Nigerian nationals, O’Callaghan explained that, “Ireland has a rules-based immigration system.

“It is important that those rules are robust and enforced.”

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‎According to a report by Sahara Reporters, an Igbo woman by name Mrs Eze was brutally murder£d by a lawless tax collector for refusing to pay festival money as at the time they came to her shop.
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‎An eye withness who spoke with correspondents of Sahara Reporters narrated that “The incident happened on Friday being yesterday when some touts began taxing traders over the Eid Mubarak festival of Muslim faithfuls that took place yesterday. Each trader was asked to pay ₦1500.
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‎”on getting to late Mrs Eze, she told them she didn’t have the money as at the time they came, and pleaded that they should come back. As touts that they are, they started destroying her goods, during which she dragged one of them and asked him to arrange her goods properly and come back.
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‎”She said she would pay but she didn’t have the money as of that time because she had not sold anything. That’s how one of them stabbed her on the chest which later led to her death.”
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‎Igbo traders in the market in collaboration with the market union has declared a 4-day mourning period, during which Igbo traders will not display goods and will instead focus on protesting.
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‎They are calling on the Ogun State Government to intervene and bring the perpetrators to justice.
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The Kwara State Fire Service has recovered the lifeless body of a 43-year-old man, simply identified as Kazeem, from a domestic well in Ilorin, the state capital.

The lifeless body was recovered from a domestic well at Ile Alapo, Edun area of Ilorin metropolis, according to a statement by the spokesman of the fire service, Hassan Adekunle, in Ilorin on Saturday.

He disclosed that “the distress call was received by the fire service control room at about 10:29 hours, reporting that a man had fallen into a well”.

“Firefighters were immediately deployed to the scene, where they successfully recovered the body from the well.

“The victim, identified as Kazeem, reportedly jumped into the well under the influence of a hard substance known as Colo (Colorado) shortly after returning from Eid prayers on Friday.”

The statement said the body was handed over to Inspector Babatunde Amos of the ‘C’ Division Police Station, Ilorin. The police awaits formal identification and claim of the body by the victim’s family.

Director of the state fire service, Prince Falade John Olumuyiwa, expressed deep sadness over the incident and admonished residents of the state to stay away from drug abuse, warning that such acts often lead to tragic outcomes.