Iceland’s Directorate of Immigration, Útlendingastofnun, said it received 331 asylum applications from Nigerians since 2020. The agency’s annual statistical workbook, Tölfræði ...

The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers said Nigerians would now likely face a higher bar to gain asylum status than they did in the past. "It's very problematic," Lorne Waldman, an attorney ...

Almost half of the asylum applications lodged here over the past decade were from Nigerians and Romanians, new figures show. A total of 74,078 claims for asylum have been made since 1997 but the ...

Allegations of mishandling asylum applications by Nigerians in Iceland are threatening the career of the country’s Interior Minister Hanna Birna Kristjansdottir, writes Atli Thor Fanndal.

Additionally, the report stated that 1,345 Nigerians sought asylum in the United Kingdom, while 5,136 sought refuge in the United States of America. A total of 664,384 Nigerians sought asylum in ...

Edward Snowden, who revealed his identity as the source of the story through The Guardian, is reported to be staying in Hong Kong and seeking asylum outside the United States, possibly in Iceland ...