🇳🇬 Nigeria 15h ago · Ayo Yusuf

More Than 1,000 Nigerians to Return Home as Xenophobic Tensions Escalate in South Africa

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Michael Olugbode in Abuja



More than 1,000 Nigerians living in South Africa have applied for voluntary repatriation amid escalating xenophobic attacks and growing anti-immigrant sentiment, raising fresh concerns over the safety of foreign nationals in Africa’s most industrialised economy.Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed that 1,094 Nigerians have so far registered to return home under a government-assisted repatriation programme, marking a dramatic increase from the 1

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