Nigerian Arrested And Deported from Sri Lanka Over Fake Passport

A Nigerian national has been arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) for entering the country with a forged passport.

Accordingly, officials of the Immigration and Emigration Department’s branch at the BIA have reportedly taken the required measures to deport the 31-year-old Nigerian on the same flight in which he had arrived, after he attempted to enter the island nation with a Bahamian passport.

He had first travelled to Liberia from Nigeria, after which he had gone to Morocco and subsequently flown to Qatar, from where he arrived in Sri Lanka aboard a Qatar Airways flight.

Upon his arrival, the Nigerian national was sent to the Border Surveillance Unit at the BIA based on suspicions of his passport. It was subsequently confirmed that the passport had, in fact, been forged. 

During the interrogation that followed, the Nigerian admitted to the passport being falsified, explaining that he opted to travel with it after several of his applications for a Sri Lankan visa had been rejected since 2022.

This issue comes in the backdrop of several Nigerian nationals being accused of various financial crimes involving ATMs, online databases and social media, which has reportedly made it harder for them to enter Sri Lanka, while also being subjected to strict background searches.

Culled from: adaderana.lk

Meanwhile,, two men from Nigeria were arrested with stolen identification information on Interstate 75 in Sumter County.

Ekundayo Oloko, 39, a native of Nigeria currently living in Houston, Texas, was driving northbound in a white 2021 Ford Explorer with a Florida license plate at about noon Thursday when he was pulled over for a window tint violation at Mile Marker 312 on I-75 near Bushnell, according to an arrest report from the Florida Highway Patrol.

During a traffic stop, Oloko was “defensive and overtly nervous.” Oloko, who was identified by this Texas driver’s license, said the vehicle was a rental.

A passenger was identified as 45-year-old Omotokunbo Omotosho, also a native of Nigeria now residing in Katy, Texas. He said his wife had handled the transaction for the vehicle’s rental. He had an expired Texas driver’s license. A computer check revealed that he was wanted on an Ohio warrant.

“In the center console were two folded/crumpled pieces of lined notebook paper with the names, dates of birth, social security numbers, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, user names, member numbers, and addresses of two female Florida residents,” the trooper wrote in the arrest report.

There were “multiple” cell phones near the vehicle’s center console and five additional cell phones in a Louis Vuitton fanny pack. A spiral notebook was found which contained six pages of personal information including names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, passwords and driver’s license numbers. There were also two laptop computers in the vehicle. The trooper noted in the report that the men had no luggage.

Omotosho’s wallet contained Space Coast Credit Union debit and credit cards belonging to two women.

Both men were arrested on fraud charges and booked at the Sumter County Detention Center. They were being held at the jail pending turnover to U.S. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement.

No related posts found...