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The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
A coalition of prominent Christian denominations, Islamic relief charities, and private philanthropic foundations across Nigeria raised hundreds of millions of naira to charter commercial flights and secure exit visas for hundreds of undocumented and destitute Nigerian migrants stranded across transit corridors in North Africa and the Middle East. Spurred by renewed waves of xenophobic intimidation,…
The National Assembly has suspended all official parliamentary visits and legislative engagements with South Africa following renewed waves of xenophobic violence against Nigerian citizens. The resolution, jointly endorsed by the Senate and the House of Representatives, orders federal lawmakers, committee secretariats, and legislative staff to boycott bilateral exchanges in Pretoria until further notice. This diplomatic…
The federal government will fly 83 Nigerian citizens out of South Africa on Wednesday following persistent xenophobic hostility across major urban townships. The returnees will travel on a South African Airways flight departing Johannesburg’s Oliver Tambo International Airport and landing in Lagos late Wednesday evening. Private philanthropists stepped in to buy the airline tickets after…
Nigeria will bring home the last group of its citizens fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa on Wednesday, closing a five week rescue operation that has drawn hundreds of traumatised returnees back to Lagos and pushed relations between Abuja and Pretoria to one of their tensest points in years. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
The Federal Government of Nigeria is preparing to receive a fourth batch of 270 citizens evacuated from South Africa following a fresh wave of xenophobic violence against foreign nationals. The arriving flight will push the total number of repatriated citizens to nearly 1,130 since emergency operations began. State officials coordinate the state-funded flights through the…
Nnani Adaobi Marian was a day away from receiving the medical degree she had spent six years earning. She never made it to the ceremony. The 23-year-old, a graduate of Kharkiv National Medical University in eastern Ukraine, died on Sunday, July 5, 2026, in a hospital in Germany, weeks after Russian bombs tore through…
Another Air Peace aircraft will lift off from Lagos on Tuesday afternoon bound for Johannesburg, and by the early hours of Wednesday it is expected to touch down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport with 270 Nigerians who have chosen to leave South Africa behind. It is the latest run in an evacuation…
A third evacuation flight carrying 271 Nigerians voluntarily returning from South Africa is scheduled to depart Johannesburg at midnight on Thursday, deepening a repatriation exercise triggered by rising anti-immigrant tension in the Southern African nation. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed the movement in a statement issued on Thursday by its spokesperson, Mr Kimiebi…
The Federal Government will repatriate 271 Nigerian nationals from South Africa today following a sharp escalation in anti-immigrant hostility. An Air Peace aircraft departed Abuja on Monday afternoon to facilitate the emergency airlift. The return flight will land at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Tuesday morning. This evacuation comes amid a looming…
Six Nigerians who had spent roughly eight months in detention in the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire over alleged economic crimes have walked free, ending a quiet diplomatic effort that the Federal Government says vindicates its pledge to shield citizens caught in legal trouble abroad. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the development in…