{"id":45027,"date":"2026-09-09T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45027"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:51:03","slug":"nigeria-steps-up-repatriation-of-citizens-from-sa-amid-anti-migrant-protests","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-steps-up-repatriation-of-citizens-from-sa-amid-anti-migrant-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria steps up repatriation of citizens from SA amid anti-migrant protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigeria says it is stepping up efforts to repatriate hundreds of its citizens who want to leave South Africa (SA) amid anti-migrant protests and concerns over undocumented migrants.<\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nigeria\u2019s Acting High Commissioner to SA, Ambassador Alexander Temitope Ajayi, says an additional 500 Nigerians are expected to be repatriated in the coming weeks, with financial support from corporate and religious organisations. Ajayi was speaking to Channel Africa on the sidelines of the two-day third edition of the Embassies Business and Conference underway at the CSIR in Pretoria where he explained how his country is dealing with the challenge.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He says the process will begin with screening, as authorities work to facilitate the safe return of those seeking to leave SA.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He says, \u00a0&#8220;We deal with that through what we call a hold of society approach because I must tell you that after the government sponsored evacuation process we have to call on corporate institutions and I must tell you that we&#8217;ve seen significant support from corporate institutions in Nigeria. Recently we had a group of business people that repatriated about 150 national and I must also tell you that we are also we have not we are not yet over we are still only because we are planning to repatriate additional 500 in the next in the in the next coming weeks you know which was made possible by one of the largest religious organization the redeemed christian church of god had made available over 200 000 to be able to repatriate about 500 additional 500. So we are going to do that on Thursday to start the screening and get them repatriated in the next two weeks&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33325,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-45027","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"He says the process will begin with screening, as authorities work to facilitate the safe return of those seeking to leave SA.\u00a0","published_date":"","news_description":"He says the process will begin with screening, as authorities work to facilitate the safe return of those seeking to leave SA.\u00a0","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45028,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45027\/revisions\/45028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}