ENUGU, March 8 (ANA-NAN) – The National Association of Liberation Tigers (NALT) in Nigeria has appealed to African leaders to urgently find solution to the xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The association, in a statement by its Director: Mobiliser and Communications, Paschal Okeoma, in Enugu on Wednesday, said the attacks could destabilise the continent if […]
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Nigeria advises citizens against travel to US
JOHANNESBURG – Nigeria has advised its citizens against any non-urgent travel to the United States until the US clarifies its visa rules. Africa’s most populous country was not one of the seven countries affected by US President Donald Trump’s initial travel ban, the BBC reported on Monday. However, a special adviser to Nigerian President Muhammadu […]
MTN expresses concern over Xenophobic violence
JOHANNESBURG, February 23 (ANA) – MTN Group on Thursday expressed concern over renewed incidents of xenophobic violence directed against foreign nationals both in South Africa and Nigeria. This comes after buildings and houses suspected to be drug dens and brothels, also housing Nigerian businesses, were burned in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, in the past few weeks. Houses […]
SAA cancels flights to Nigeria
JOHANNESBURG – South African Airways (SAA) and a number of other airlines have cancelled flights to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in the Nigerian capital Abuja due to the dangers posed by the state of disrepair of the runway. SAA cancelled flights for six weeks, as repairs on the runway began on Wednesday. This follows an […]
Almost 50 severely injured stuck in refugee camp
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — At least 46 “severely injured” people remain in a refugee camp that Nigeria’s military says it mistakenly bombed and they need urgent evacuation, the International Committee for the Red Cross said Wednesday. “Patients are attended to in an open-air space in a precarious environment,” the aid group’s statement said, raising the […]