Newspaper seller fears deportation

A NIGERIAN who became the first black newspaper seller in Cork said yesterday he feared for his safety after being told he is to be deported.

Aderibigbe Ebenezer said he fled Nigeria in November 2004 because he feared he would be killed. He claimed that both his father and brother had been poisoned by a rival tribal family.

Last Tuesday he received a letter from the Irish authorities telling him he was to be deported. Since then he has given up his job selling the Evening Echo.