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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 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…
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…
South African investors moved $983.83m into Nigeria between January and March 2026, even as anti migrant violence in South Africa forced hundreds of Nigerians to flee home, fresh figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) show, pointing to a commercial relationship that has held firm while the diplomatic one frays. According to…
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 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…
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 Federal Government has deployed the first of five emergency flights to rescue citizens fleeing a sharp rise in anti-immigrant violence across South Africa. President Bola Tinubu approved the state-backed evacuation programme after deep hostility toward foreign workers flared into open intimidation and street violence. A commercial Boeing aircraft operated by Air Peace will fly…
