Canada mentioned it has deported 366 Nigerians between January and October 2025 in an intensified crackdown on its immigration enforcement drive.
Official information obtained from the Canada Border Companies Company removals programme statistics additionally revealed that 974 Nigerians are at the moment within the “elimination in progress” stock, awaiting deportation from the nation.
The determine up to date on November 25, 2025, confirmed that Nigeria ranked ninth among the many prime 10 nationalities deported.
A breakdown of the info confirmed that Nigerian deportations have fluctuated over time.
In fiscal yr 2024-2025, Canada eliminated 18,048 individuals, spending roughly $78m within the course of.
In 2019, Canada eliminated 339 Nigerians; this dropped to 302 in 2020, then to 242 in 2021, and to 199 in 2022.
Whereas Nigeria didn’t function within the prime 10 in 2023 and 2024, it returned to the checklist in 2025, recording 366 removals in simply 10 months.
This represented an eight per cent enhance in comparison with the 2019 determine.
The vast majority of these being eliminated, about 83 per cent, are failed refugee claimants whose asylum purposes have been denied.
Criminality accounts for about 4 per cent of removals.
It additionally allotted an extra $30.5m over three years to bolster elimination efforts, whereas committing $1.3bn to reinforce border safety.
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The Canadian authorities says it’s intensifying deportations to tighten immigration targets and handle considerations over housing shortages, labour market pressures, and border safety.
President of the Canadian Affiliation of Refugee Legal professionals, Aisling Bondy, had expressed concern that deportations could ramp up additional if Invoice C-12, also called the ‘border invoice,’ passes.
“One of many clauses in that invoice is that lots of people can be completely banned from submitting a refugee declare in Canada,” Bondy mentioned.
Evaluation of the CBSA information revealed that Nigeria is the one African nation featured within the prime 10 nationalities for deportations in 2025.
Different African nations are grouped below “remaining nationals,” which accounted for six,233 removals in 2025.
The highest 10 nations for removals in 2025 are: Mexico (3,972), India (2,831), Haiti (2,012), Colombia (737), Romania (672), United States (656), Venezuela (562), China (385), Nigeria (366), and Pakistan (359).
Equally, within the removal-in-progress report, Nigeria (974) is the one African nation listed within the prime 10. The stock is led by India (6,515), adopted by Mexico (4,650), the US (1,704), China (1,430), Nigeria (974), Colombia (895), Pakistan (863), Haiti (741), Brazil (650), and Chile (621).
