DAILY TRUST
No fewer than 10,000 foreigners are currently seeking asylum in Nigeria, the Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has disclosed.
She disclosed this while speaking at a two-day workshop on “Strengthening the capacity of NCFRMI case officers on Nationality screening for asylum seekers” in Keffi on Wednesday.
“We have 10,000 asylum seekers. The asylum seekers are undergoing the process of either achieving refugee status and once they are declined, they will have to go back,” she said.
She said some of them could be declined asylum when they don’t fulfill the specifications of the law…
