xenophobia in south africa

Here's a trending footage of a South African pastor inciting his congregation against Nigerians and Ghanaians. The pastor can be heard ranting how Nigerians only advertise joystick enlargement products to South Africans. According to him, he believes that Nigerians offering joystick...

Femi Falana, Popular Nigerian Human Rights Lawyer has written to the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, threatening to sue the South African government over the recent xenophobic attacks in the country. In the letter dated March 9, Falana wrote, ''We believe that it is the failure of...

Ghanaian parliamentarians have made a decisive decision against South African Companies in the country. The parliament made a call for total boycott of South African goods and services following spike of xenophobic attacks on her citizens. See video: Meanwhile, the Nigerian Senate has...

Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Diaspora Affairs, has explained why the President is yet to comment on the recent xenophobia attack against Nigerians residing in South Africa. Speaking during an interview with Osasu Igbinedion of TOS TV Network...

Japhet Omojuwa has been detained by South African border officials. Omojuwa shared details of his detention via Twitter. See tweets: Omojuwa later tweeted that he has been released after some intervention by Presidential aides Tolu Ogunlesi and Abike Dabiri.

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo, has condemned the recent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa. Obasanjo issued the condemnation while speaking in Abeokuta during a courtesy call from leadership of the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Study, Kuru, Jos. He...

President Muhammadu Buhari's Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has lambasted South Africa's Home Affairs Minister, Malusi Gigaba, over his comments on the recent attacks on Nigerians in South Africa. Reacting to the recent attacks, Gigaba had said...

Protesters yesterday demanded that South African citizens and businesses leave Nigeria. Earlier, they vandalized the head office of mobile giant MTN in Abuja, in retaliation for anti-Nigerian violence in Gauteng, South Africa. The National Association of Nigeria Students says it has given...

South African Government has assured that it will continue to collaborate with major stakeholders in Nigeria to find lasting solution to xenophobic attack of Nigerians in South Africa. The South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Lulu Mnguni, gave the assurance on Thursday in Abuja said...