LAGOS, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Fifty-three Nigerians deported from Spain arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Wednesday aboard an Air Europa flight.

    A Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) source at the Airport said the deportees comprised 31 females and 22 males, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Thursday.

    The source said 47 of them were deported for immigration-related offences, and the six others, over alleged criminal offences.

    Between Sept, 27 and Oct. 22, more than 1,064 Nigerians were deported from Libya.

    Fifty-eight Nigerians were also deported from Ireland on Oct. 23.