The Nigeria Immigration Service, Osun State Command, has arrested 55 irregular migrants from Cameroon and Congo for allegedly entering the state through an unauthorised route without travel documents.
The migrants were arrested at different locations in the state following intelligence gathering by the command, the Osun Comptroller of Immigration, Ibrahim Akinyemi, said on Friday.
Akinyemi said the migrants were brought to the command for profiling and subsequent repatriation.
“These people are about 55. They are irregular migrants. They were arrested and brought here for repatriation. They came in through an unauthorised route,” he said.
According to the comptroller, the command checked the migrants’ documents and found that they had neither travel documents nor ordinary passports.
He added that some of the migrants were staying in Owode-Ede and were allegedly involved in an online business known as QNET, which Akinyemi said was not registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission.
The migrants reportedly told immigration officials during interrogation that they came to Osun through Yola, Adamawa State.
Akinyemi said the command would also investigate those who facilitated the migrants’ movement into the state.
One of the migrants, Ismail Mohammed from Cameroon, said he arrived in Osun in February 2026 after a woman living in Chad invited him to participate in an online business.
The immigration command said the arrested migrants would be repatriated, while efforts were ongoing to locate others allegedly staying at undisclosed locations across the state.