Lagos — Spanish authorities last Friday deported 59 Nigerians, an immigration source told Daily Champion.

The deportees were brought back about 4pm on a chartered Air Europa flight, marked AEA 911, which came through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos also had on board some foreign security officials.

Our correspondent gathered that they were deported for various offences including expired documents, prostitution, drug trafficking and other related crimes.

Officials at the Hajj and Cargo Terminal in MMIA said some of the deportees were seen trying to board taxis.

Eye witnesses said some of the female deportees who claimed they reside outside Lagos and lacked money to lodge in a hotel, joined some cargo workers to their houses.

Several Nigerians are being deported from overseas on weekly basis, according to immigrations sources.

Meanwhile, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has said the increasing dimension of human trafficking is a development the agency is seriously tackling.

Daily Champion recalls that recently, 58 Nigerians were deported from Sudan while about 734 Nigerians were deported from the North African country of Libya in 2009 all for similar offences with this present crop of deportees.