In a more extensive crackdown on its immigration enforcement efforts, Canada announced that it had deported 366 Nigerians between January and October 2025.
974 Nigerians are currently in the “removal in progress” inventory and awaiting deportation from the nation, according to official statistics obtained from the Canada Border Services Agency’s removals program.
Nigeria ranked ninth among the top ten nationalities deported, according to an updated data from November 25, 2025.
According to the breakdown of the data, the number of deported people from Nigeria has fluctuated over time.
In fiscal year 2024-2025, Canada removed 18, 048 people, spending approximately $78m in the process.
In 2019, Canada removed 339 Nigerians, this dropped to 302 in 2020, then to 242 in 2021, and to 199 in 2022.
Nigeria returned to the top 10 in 2025, recording 366 removals in ten months, despite not ranking in the top 10 in 2023 and 2024.
This was an 8% increase over the figure for 2019 at the highest rate.
About 83 percent of those who are being removed are unsuccessful refugees who sought refuge from persecution and had their asylum applications rejected.
About 4% of removals are caused by criminal activity.
Additionally, it committed $1.3 billion to improve border security and an additional $ 30.5% over three years to boost removal efforts.
Read more about Kidnappers’ demand of 450 million for the release of the abducted monarch, son, and others.
In response to concerns over housing shortages, labor market pressures, and border security, the Canadian government says it is increasing deportations in order to tighten immigration goals.
Aisling Bondy, the president of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, expressed concern that if Bill C-12, also known as the “border bill,” is passed, deportations may increase even further.
According to Bondy, “one of the provisions of that bill is that many people will be permanently prohibited from filing a refugee claim in Canada.”
Nigeria is the only African nation to appear in the top ten for deportations in 2025, according to analysis of the CBSA data.
In addition to the “remaining nationals,” which accounted for 6, 233 removals in 2025, other African countries are grouped under.
The top 10 countries 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).
