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The House of Representatives has launched an investigation into the persistent casualties and property losses suffered by Nigerians living in South Africa. Lawmakers resolved on Wednesday to audit the assets abandoned by over 3,500 citizens evacuated during recent and past xenophobic attacks. Motion sponsor Babajimi Benson warned that lawful Nigerian residents have faced targeted violence…
The diplomatic standoff between Abuja and Pretoria over compensation for Nigerians uprooted by xenophobic violence has entered a sharper legal phase, with human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, insisting that only a regional court, not the African Union, can force South Africa to pay. His intervention reframes a bilateral grievance…
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 leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has raised the stakes in the escalating row over the treatment of Nigerians in South Africa, declaring a nationwide protest that seeks to paralyse the operations of MTN and MultiChoice while pressuring citizens to withdraw their funds from Stanbic IBTC Bank. The NANS President,…
The Federal Government has said it will engage South African authorities to secure compensation for Nigerians who abandoned businesses and other valuable assets while fleeing renewed anti-immigrant hostility, a move that signals a tougher diplomatic posture as the country’s evacuation programme stretches into its third week. Acting Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador Alexander…
Stephen Eustaquio settled a tense knockout opener deep into stoppage time on Sunday, his clinical finish from the edge of the box handing Canada a 1-0 win over South Africa and a place in the World Cup Round of 16 for the first time in the country’s history. The result came in the opening…
Africa has placed three of its record 10 representatives into the Round of 32 at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with Morocco, South Africa, and Côte d’Ivoire booking knockout berths and six more nations still chasing qualification before the group stage closes. The trio advanced through contrasting routes. Morocco qualified in second place in…
The South African government has issued a formal clarification on the legal boundaries of citizen’s arrests, warning that frustration over illegal migration does not grant private individuals the right to take the law into their own hands. Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi, chairperson of the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Migration, delivered the assurance during a…
Two hundred and sixty-eight Nigerians evacuated from South Africa following recent xenophobic attacks are due to arrive in Lagos this morning, with the federal government receiving them at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, will represent the federal government in receiving the returnees, according to a…
The National Association of Nigerian Students, South West Zone D, has announced plans to stage demonstrations at South African businesses operating in Nigeria, following fresh reports of xenophobic attacks that allegedly claimed the lives of two Nigerian nationals in South Africa. The association, in a statement signed by its South West Zone Coordinator, Comrade…
