•Jihadists in Mali Jihadists and their separatist Tuareg allies hit Mali with fresh coordinated attacks today, striking multiple towns and a prison, according to the army, residents, and security sources. The fighting, which started around 5:00 am (0500 GMT), came more than two months after the same groups staged attacks against the ruling jun...
•President of Sierra Leone President of Sierra Leone and Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, Julius Maada Bio, has described the inauguration of the new ECOWAS Commission Headquarters in Abuja as a symbol of West Africa’s renewed commitment to regional integration, democracy, peace and shared prosperity. Commissi...
•An aircraft conveying Nigerians from South Africa The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that all the special evacuation flights involving Nigerians evacuated from South Africa are fully paid for by the federal government and at no cost to the returnees. It disclosed that the first batch, which arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Air...
The Air Peace aircraft carrying the fourth batch of Nigerians from South Africa arrived this morning The aircraft conveying Nigerians repatriated from South Africa amid the ongoing hostilities against black migrants has arrived. The plane touched down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 10:42 a.m. One of the returnees who ar...
•Kimiebi Ebienfa The federal government has announced that another 271 Nigerians affected by the recent xenophobic protests in South Africa will arrive in Lagos today (Friday) as the ongoing evacuation exercise continues. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement issued on Thursday by its spokesperson, Kimiebi Ebienfa, said the latest ba...
•South African protesters hold sticks and flags while chanting slogans, yesterday The Nigerian government won’t accept the “humiliation” or damage to its interests amid the wave of xenophobic attacks and anti-immigration marches in South Africa. According to the Presidential Adviser on Foreign Affairs, Demola Oshodi, who said this, the feder...
•A man holding a stick during the planned March and March demonstration in Durban, South Africa, today There is disquiet in South Africa this morning following fears of nationwide protests by locals calling for the removal of undocumented foreign nationals, especially Africans. According to investigations by our correspondent, businesses and ...
•Nigerian returnees from South Africa The Nigerian government will engage with the South African government to seek compensation for Nigerians forced to leave behind businesses and properties amid anti-immigrant protests in the country, Acting Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa, Alexander Ajayi, has said. Ajayi disclosed this today on ...
•Xenophobia An uneasy sense of anticipation wafted across several communities in South Africa yesterday ahead of today’s nationwide anti-migrant protests and the fears of violence in the rainbow country. Though the President Cyril Ramaphosa-led government has urged the protesting groups to exercise their rights responsibly, thousands of immigr...
•Miss Universe Nigeria 2024, Chidinma Adetshina A former Miss Universe Nigeria and Miss Universe Africa and Oceania, Chidimma Adetshina, is facing a fresh deportation battle in South Africa after authorities allegedly found her living in the country without legal immigration status. According to a South African newspaper Sunday World yesterday...
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