Weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari visited South Africa in the wake of xenophobic attacks on African migrants including Nigerians, another Nigerian, Ikenna Otugo, was on Tuesday killed in the former apartheid nation.
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The federal government through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has disclosed that another 400 Nigerians in South Africa have indicated interest in returning home.
The commission’s spokesman, Abdulrahman Balogun made this disclosure when he led 32 Nigerian returnees of Oyo...
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Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has revealed details of his meeting with South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, over xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other African nationals residing in South Africa.
Obasanjo said he paid a courtesy call on the South African leader...
The sycophancy displayed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to dispatch special envoys to apologise to leaders of certain African states for the recent xenophobic violence solicited a lot of noise from several South Africans.
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Former lawmaker, Ben Murray Bruce has said, ‘President Buhari showed maturity and restraint on the xenophobic attacks in South Africa and this is commendable’.
In a rare commendation coming from Ben Bruce to President Buhari, the common sense senator said, ‘in such a situation, a leader must...
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday gave a sum of N20,000 to each of the second batch of 315 Nigerians evacuated from South Africa.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fresh batch of returnees arrived a week after another 187 Nigerians fleeing xenophobia …
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Another batch of 315 Nigerians fleeing xenophobic attacks in South Africa yesterday arrived at 7.45p.m., through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
This brings the total number of Nigerians evacuated from the Southern African country to 493. Alighting from Air Peace B777-300...
South Africa yesterday toed the path of rapprochement as it apologised to Nigeria over the killings of its nationals in xenophobic attacks in the rainbow …
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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has told the BBC that he feels ashamed over the recent outbreak of xenophobic violence in the country and reiterated his commitment in welcoming foreigners into the country stating South Africa will never be xenophobic....
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A leading Non-Governmental Organisation, African Diaspora Coalition for Unity and Progress (ADCUP), has condemned the action of the South African Government that disallowed several Nigerians willing to return home from South Africa from boarding the Air Peace flight sent to the former apartheid...
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After wave of xenophobic violence at many foreign nationals, South Africans bend the knee, begs Nigerians and others for forgiveness.
In what looked like they’re under a spell, they knelt for minutes under the hot sun in their numbers pleading for peace and unity.....
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A special envoy made up of three officials has been dispatched by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa to some seven African countries after he was booed at former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s funeral in Harare on Saturday, September 14. The …
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The Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said that the Nigerians returning from South Africa will receive sim cards with airtime worth N40,000 and 9GB of valid data for …
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Desperate Nigerians living in South Africa, including some who were forced to close their businesses following attacks on foreign nationals in Gauteng, are preparing to leave the country, lock, stock and barrel.
On Wednesday, scores of Nigerians and their children, armed with documents and...
Despite staring poverty in the face, four busloads of people who experienced xenophobic violence in Johannesburg left from the Nigerian consulate by bus in the morning, headed to OR Tambo International Airport as part of a repatriation process. ..
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ABUJA—apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has advised South-East governors to make adequate preparation and put the necessary infrastructure to accommodate victims of the xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
Ohanaeze has also planned to acknowledge Igbo sons and daughters...
The presidency yesterday revealed the message conveyed to South African President, Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa, by President Muhammadu Buhari’s special envoy, Mr. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, which had hitherto been shrouded in secrecy.
The presidential brief showed that the South African government...
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Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said that the South African Government had arraigned eight policemen for maltreating Nigerians in that country.
Dabiri-Erewa made the disclosure during a programme on Channels Television. …
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The chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has disclosed that 640 Nigerians in South Africa have voluntarily registered to return home following the xenophobic attacks in the country....
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The ratification of the African Continental Free Trade agreement in May is the biggest thing to happen in Africa post colonialism, says Finance Minister Tito Mboweni.
Mboweni was addressing delegates at the World Economic Forum for Africa in Cape Town, standing in....
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