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...last Friday's deadline drew near, the refugees began to mass at the crossing posts along Nigeria's western border with Benin. Their mattresses, chairs, plastic containers and enamel cooking pots spilled out of trailers, trucks and minibuses. Many of those who made it across the border had first to surrender any supplies of sugar, milk and detergents--officially described as "essential commodities"--to Nigerian immigration and customs officials. No one was permitted to leave with more than $22 worth of naira, Nigeria's currency. The scenes at posts along Nigeria's borders with Niger and Chad were much...
...expulsion was announced without explanation on April 15 by Nigeria's Minister of Internal Affairs, Major General Mohammed Magoro, who declared simply that "all illegal aliens are to leave before the tenth of May." About half the immigrants targeted for expulsion originally came from Ghana, the rest mainly from Burkina Faso, Niger, Liberia, Chad, Togo, Gambia and Benin. Many had entered Nigeria illegally in search of jobs; others had fled from drought and starvation...
...second time in just over two years that Nigeria had ordered an exodus of alien residents. In 1983 some 2 million illegal immigrants were unceremoniously booted out of the country. At that time, there were reports that some of the foreigners were beaten and robbed as they tried to make their way out of Nigeria. Some diplomats in Lagos said they believed that the latest order was issued for much the same reasons as in 1983: a troubled economy that continues to be badly hurt by depressed crude-oil prices. At a time when jobs are scarce and prices...
...bribing border guards or crossing over at remote, unguarded spots. Some even returned by stowing away on ships. More returnees can almost certainly be expected following the latest expulsion. "I will have to come back," explained Alhaji Idrissa as he waited to make the crossing into his native Niger. "Nigeria is the only place where I can survive...
Ezejo-Okoye was born in England but spent most of his first four years in Nigeria. A few months after the Nigeria-Biafra war broke out. Ezeji-Okoye, his mother and sister escaped on a French ammunitions plane and returned to England...