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A commercial airliner from Johannesburg touched down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Thursday night, carrying 105 distressed Nigerian citizens fleeing fresh anti-migrant hostility in South Africa. The passenger manifest listed 82 adults and 23 children who abandoned homes and livelihoods after street mobs renewed violent campaigns against foreign Africans. Public funds…
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…
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…
The Federal Government has confirmed that another evacuation flight carrying Nigerians from South Africa will arrive on Tuesday, as regional tensions escalate ahead of planned nationwide anti-immigrant protests scheduled for June 30. The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, disclosed that an Air Peace aircraft departed Nigeria on Monday at 3:00…
The federal government will cover the full cost of repatriating regular and irregular Nigerian citizens fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the emergency financial waiver on Saturday night following a direct authorization from the presidency. The intervention removes all administrative fees that previously slowed down the evacuation process for…
Hundreds of foreign nationals mostly from Malawi and Mozambique have sought safety in community halls along South Africa’s southern coastline after mobs went door to door telling them to leave the country. Many spent nights in the bush or mountains before reaching the centres in towns such as Gansbaai, Kleinmond and Stanford. The violence…