Another 105 Nigerians arrived in Lagos \u200bfrom South Africa on Friday, bringing \u200cto 1,926 the number repatriated since June following xenophobic attacks, the foreign ministry \u200bsaid on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Foreign ministry spokesperson \u200bOluwafemi Adeniyi said the latest \u2060group was comprised of 26 \u200bmen, 29 women and 50 children.<\/p>\n
The \u200blatest group was the 14th consular evacuation flight from South Africa since \u200bthe evacuation programme began on \u200bJune 10, Adeniyi said.<\/p>\n
The exercise is continuing, \u200cwith \u2060more Nigerians undergoing verification and clearance in South Africa ahead of planned repatriation flights.<\/p>\n
Abuja said it \u200bwas working \u200bwith \u2060South African authorities to tackle xenophobic violence, while \u200burging Nigerians in the country \u200bto \u2060be vigilant, obey local laws and stay in contact with \u2060its \u200bmission in Pretoria for \u200bconsular assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another 105 Nigerians arrived in Lagos \u200bfrom South Africa on Friday, bringing \u200cto 1,926 the number repatriated since June following xenophobic attacks, the foreign ministry \u200bsaid on Tuesday. Foreign ministry spokesperson \u200bOluwafemi Adeniyi said the latest \u2060group was comprised of 26 \u200bmen, 29 women and 50 children. The \u200blatest group was the 14th consular evacuation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,2377,27],"tags":[175,122,78],"class_list":["post-22208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-migration","category-west-africa","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa","tag-xenophobic-attacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22209,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions\/22209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}