{"id":13831,"date":"2026-11-10T06:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T06:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/three-nigerians-arrested-in-india-over-immigration-status\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T06:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T06:15:47","slug":"three-nigerians-arrested-in-india-over-immigration-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/three-nigerians-arrested-in-india-over-immigration-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Nigerians arrested in India over immigration status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Prison-1024x680.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Inside prisons crime rings: How inmates run operations from behind bars\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Prison-1024x680.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Prison-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Prison-768x510.webp 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Prison.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three Nigerians have been arrested in Delhi, India, for allegedly residing in the country without valid immigration documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Times of India reported on Sunday that the Delhi Police arrested the men during a verification exercise in Dwarka, southwest Delhi, on October 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report, which cited police officials, identified the suspects as Bartholomew Iloegbunem, Konan Okocha, also known as Konan Brice Kousaai, and Ndubuisi Nwabufor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the report, the three men were unable to produce documents authorising their stay in India when questioned by the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were subsequently presented before the Foreigners Regional Registration Office and transferred to the Sewa Sadan detention centre in Lampur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrests followed a police verification drive targeting foreign nationals in the area, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/three-nigerians-arrested-in-india-over-immigration-status\/\">Three Nigerians arrested in India over immigration status<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Nigerians have been arrested in Delhi, India, for allegedly residing in the country without valid immigration documents. The Times of India reported on Sunday that the Delhi Police arrested&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}