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

New figures show the cost of deporting 35 Nigerian asylum seekers earlier this month was half-a-million euro, when prison detention costs are added.

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.

The Immigration and Asylum appeals board in Iceland has denied the appeal of Nigerian couple Sunday Iserian and Joy Lucky, and their eight year old daughter to stay in Iceland. Mbl.Is reports that ...

The Government will announce an agreement with the Nigerian government this week on deporting unsuccessful Nigerian asylum-seekers. Nigerians are the largest single group of asylum-seekers now ...

One thing, I am certain of, is that citizens of Nigeria and other African countries should not be claiming asylum here in Ireland. They should all be referred back to the last European country ...

Ms Ruane goes on to insist that the Government is negligent in having a "one-stop response" to Nigerian applications for asylum. There are a few facts which your columnist might wish to consider.